[smegel]

I think I would rather someone have my CC number than my home address (which would be the same as my mailing address).

[ams6110]

You're not in the phone book, then? County property tax database? I mean, your home address is not exactly something you can really hope to keep secret.

[jpttsn]

Why?

[smegel]

Credit cards can be cancelled. Home addresses plus other information could be valuable to identity thieves. Maybe it's not that big a deal, but the idea of hackers (criminals?) knowing my name, email and home address seems a bit creepy.

[jpttsn]

Perhaps if it were a case of a targeted attack I'd agree Identity theft etc doesn't really scale as well as credit card fraud.