Tiny charges on bank cards could presage bigger problems

[gbugbear at gmail.com (Tim Mugherini)]

In all fairnees I did not add any account info

Is there account info? Bank?account  number? Personal info?

If it does not have account info - I seem to remember that was stored
with another company or intermediate could that be targeted?

On 2/3/09, xgermx <xgermx at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using Mint for over a year w/o any issues. It's 'read only', so
> even if the account was compromised there isn't much the attacker could do
> except look at budgets and make some graphs/pie charts
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:11 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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