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HumanOstrichtoday at 10:58 AM1 replyview on HN

None of your solutions seem useful in this case, especially a $150 hold. Site-wide rate limiting for payment processing? Too complicated, high-maintenance, and easy to mess up.

You can't block 100% of these attempts, but you can block a large class of them by checking basic info for the attempted card changes like they all have different names and zip codes. Combine that with other (useful) mitigations. Maybe getting an alert that in the past few hours or days even, 90% of card change attempts have failed for a cluster of users.


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withinboredomtoday at 1:14 PM

A $150 hold would clearly be noticed by the victim, so the attacker wouldn't even try it.

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