Zen, that's terrible! Is the card company holding you responsible for the charges or is there anything you can do to recover some of the stolen funds? It doesn't sound as though they are being very helpful to you at all.

If you've only used the card online at Amazon, it's highly unlikely that they'd have leaked it or have had their customer information hacked. However, if your computer somehow got infected with a keylogger or similar spyware, it's possible that some third party could have stolen the number undetected while you typed it in. I'd check to make sure your computer is clean before typing a CC #, or any other sensitive information.

Ivona, a similar thing happened to me, only luckily Discover triggered the fraud alert much sooner. My # was stolen while I was visiting NYC. The only time the card was out of my sight was when I used it to pay for a T-shirt in one store, and dinner in a restaurant, so apparently one of the workers must've had a side gig in identity theft.. The cc fraud person I spoke to said it's really common and that some of them have little reader devices they can hide in their palms, and it scans all the information which they then use to make duplicate cards later.

It's depressing how many crooks & scammers are out there. I know very few people who haven't gotten their card # stolen at one time or another.