posted by wkfanNEVER use a debit card on-line.
Eh, it's not problematic by itself. And about 99% of the time it gets stolen, the problem isn't with the website's security. It's with the user's machine.
Still, everybody accepts PayPal these days, and they have both great security and great fraud protection. Really no sense in not using a payment surrogate service like that.
For the record, my near-miss a few weeks ago was the result of someone using a skimmer on a gas pump card reader.