Tiny charges on bank cards could presage bigger problems

[gbugbear at gmail.com (Tim Mugherini)]

I checked out mint.com a while back and the idea of storing something with
access to all my financial information just seemed to have the FAIL stench
all over it. I even went as far as to set up two accounts and found that
they allow the reset of passwords without any challenge questions. <sniff>
Do you guys smell something. Just my two cents

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Mad Marv <marv at madmarvonline.com> wrote:

> Interesting fraud tactic, brute forcing to find legitimate debit card
> numbers rather than having to steal the info.  Also mentions how
> Mint.com alerted affected members once they detected the anomoly.
> Anyone here use Mint?  I've always avoided them because their service
> seems like a big, fat bullseye.  Maybe there's some value to them?
>
>
> http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/02/01/tiny_charges_on_bank_cards_could_presage_bigger_problems/
>
> Marv
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