It definitely does. It didn't use to be the case, but many banks now offer the same protection from credit theft as a credit card. My local bank only requires t

It definitely does. It didn't use to be the case, but many banks now offer the same protection from credit theft as a credit card. My local bank only requires that I alert them as soon as I notice it, but their map-reduce jobs have always caught the crooks before I would have ever known.