what was the first credit card dump 
card theft scams and black markets for personal ids have been around since the advent of credit cards in the 1960s and 70s the first large scale credit card dump however is often attributed to the year 1984 when the new york times reported that the password for a leading credit union trw was stolen from a sears store on the west coast that password unlocked the credit histories and personal information of many sears customers that would subsequently be used to obtain their credit card numbers 5