Clicked on a bad link on my macbook pro retina

About 2 days ago my friend created an event on Facebook which looked very suspicious. Stupidly I clicked on it and the link sent me to some health site talking about coffee beans, I knew my friend wouldn't post something like this so I quickly closed the tab. I was paranoid the whole day and figured nothing could have really happened since I heard macs rarely get viruses and other things. The site I went to never asked for passwords or email accounts. The following day my dad received a phone call from the credit card company and they notified him that someone tried to use his card to buy some stuff. That same day I changed passwords for all my emails, all my college info, all my online banking stuff and social networking passwords. I also did a factory reset on my macbook as well. I'm wondering what other steps should I take in order to make sure this is does not happen again and I'm also wondering how the hacker/virus targeted my dad's credit card and not mine (I don't have a credit card, I have a debit card). The only thing that was connected on my macbook that would link to my dad was ebay. Please let me know if I missed anything that I should change in order to stop this. Thanks for the help!

Btw when I clicked on the link my macbook was running the most up to date version of OS X mountain lion.

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