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I was wondering about the no use of Mint. This post (by mint itself) says that they don't store passwords and only provide a read version of your data. http://s

I was wondering about the no use of Mint. This post (by mint itself) says that they don't store passwords and only provide a read version of your data. http://satisfaction.mint.com/mint/topics/is_my_data_safe_with_mint http://satisfaction.mint.com/mint/topics/is_my_data_safe_wit... Could you/someone who has more knowledge of this than me explain how this is safer (if it is) and then possibly explain if/how someone could hack mint to get my information. I always thought of mint as just as safe as using online banking, is this very flawed?

abraham 16y ago
Mint stores you passwords. As with anything you are increasing risk by adding a third party to the equation.
- meterplech 16y ago
  Not sure how this works, but the way they describe it they say that they don't really store them, but your internet finance provider stores them and they only access via some credentialing. It does make sense that just adding someone to the equation adds more possibilities for risk