[privacy] IKEA prints SSN and entire credit card number to receipts

[Juha-Matti Laurio]

The exact name of the card is IKEA Handla and these cards are green.

According to spokesperson Eva Stål they have printed a customer number (not SSN) and an entire credit card number to receipts.

- Juha-Matti

Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio at netti.fi> kirjoitti: 
> The furniture retailer IKEA prints the entire credit card number and social security number of its IKEA Card customers to cash receipts.
> 
> Linko to Dagens Nyheter article (unfortunately only in Swedish):
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> Ikea Handlas kvittouppgifter kan hjälpa bedragare
> http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?a=717867
> 
> It appears that the card number has 16 digits:
> 
> http://www.ikeacards.com/