That said such Irish systems are very imperfect e.g. low wages for IT staff and there was breach/attack of the countries hospitals systems during Covid however the gov acknowledged the attach at the time. So very much possible.
I'd need to see more evidence before I'd take this claim seriously though.
It almost seems mandatory to use different purchasing emails to limit fall out, and a credit card layer in between like Apple/Google pay or plastiq.
The moment someone comes up with that for CCs with no real downside i'm signing up for them too.
Some other high end cards have also been learning from Apple Card here and moving to virtual numbers.
So far, I've seen no real downside to Apple's approach to virtual numbers and the Advanced Fraud Protection CVC rotation (which just starts to feel like a 2FA TOTP for card purchases online the way you check for the latest value after Face ID check from the app every time), and it was definitely one of the factors why I wound up signing up for Apple Card in the first place. Hopefully more of the low end cards and mainstream banks pick up the added protections, too.
iCloud makes it stupid simple to generate email addresses for individual services.
I do want to migrate away from Apple but for now this “just works”
Also this website has the most insane cookie consent flow I've seen yet. Shameful.
