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Asking for your banking credentials does not worry me. I would need to look more closely at this particular one, or even contact their customer support to see
by rpxl 12y ago
Asking for your banking credentials does not worry me. I would need to look more closely at this particular one, or even contact their customer support to see if they have in-house security (the cyber kind) and what certifications they have, dates and nature of audits etc. I worked for a company like this as a software engineer and know the lengths they go to ensure there is minimal data on their servers that could be stolen. And yes, this could mean your data is sent to a third party. Sometimes it's more cost efficient and secure to use a third party scraper which hands back a token for access and pays for all the security stuffs to keep your data safe.
What DOES concern me as that the whole purpose of this service is to correlate data about you that is otherwise behind locked doors and explicitly keeping identity information intact. The services profit from your data and it's sale would far far out way any individuals.