updated info -how safe are your financial records -

renovation · Last edited by renovation on Tue, 24 May 2005 15:56:54; edited 1 time in total

do you feel banks do enought to keep them safe ?
i really am starting to wonder .with all the crap they are finding.
and how are these people getting are info really !

your and my info is worth a lot of money in the wrong hands !

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:41:37 Post Subject:

I have accounts with Wachovia... and had accounts with BOA through this winter... Bang Head

BeerCheeze · Posted: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:55:06 Post Subject:

I gotz bad news for you folks.... NONE of your info is really safe. And it's not generally from a lack of avaliable technology, it's from a lack of brains.

Simple fact, most breaches of information security is done through [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(computer_security)]"Social Engineering"[/url]

renovation · Posted: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:56:29 Post Subject:

Big Bruin
sorry for the bad news ! Mr. T

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:00:55 Post Subject:

My Bank of America was previously a Fleet account, which was previously a Summit account... I never felt all thaqt secure just by all the transactions and shuffling of records, personnel, etc... But, even worse was that the branch I would go to at lunch time was robbed twice last year! Once, bad... Twice, give me a f'ing break! And the people got away each time... in an urban area of NJ...

So, I left there for Wachovia... Which I want to leave just because none of their local branches have a drive through ATM... Laughing

But, like Cheeze says... it is no better anywhere else, you just don't know until someone gets caught!

LaTech · Posted: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:23:28 Post Subject:

Ok, so the guy paid $10 per name...and there are 700,000 names?! WTH!? The guy had $7,000,000 to give away?!?!? Sheesh, I'm in the wrong business!

HackaX0rus · Posted: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:35:39 Post Subject:

...i dont have financial records i keep all my money in a hollowed out book...wich reminds me i gotta reinstate my bank account Bang Head

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Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

This happens more than people realize. It's not just by hacking, or purchasing the info. Sometimes people go through legit ways to get the information. That's what happened with Choicepoint this past December. A group posed as a legit company, and paid to get access to the information, which in turn used it illegally.

This is why we've installed HD encryption on all computers at the bank I work at.

heylinder · Posted: Mon, 23 May 2005 23:24:25 Post Subject:

Victim of Identy Fraud here Wave

Police report filed and all agencies involved have been notified. I discovered this 4 months ago and it could be another 6 months before it's all over with. Big hassel Rolling Eyes

On the other hand there is a house in Indiana that I have been making $900 a month payments on for almost 4 years ... never been late Smile

So I'm thinking about taking my vacation in June to this place ... hiring a real estate agent to sale my house ... and evicting the peeps that live there Grin

MasterSweets14 · Posted: Tue, 24 May 2005 07:59:26 Post Subject:

screw banks i jus keep my money in a shoebox under my bed