Mint.com consolidates ones financial accounts and information from several websites. These websites, of course, belong to banks and other financial institution

Mint.com consolidates ones financial accounts and information from several websites. These websites, of course, belong to banks and other financial institutions. Naturally, Mint.com needs the login credentials for those sites. Therefore, a hashed & salted password is useless; Mint needs to store the username & password in plaintext. Here's some more information: http://fourthcheckraise.blogspot.com/2011/01/might-cost-you-mint.html http://fourthcheckraise.blogspot.com/2011/01/might-cost-you-...