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Originally Posted by Muta
I still do it, knowing full well that my information could get hacked one day. Hackers steal financial information all the time. I change my passwords up every so often in order to mitigate as much risk as possible.
No online system is perfect, not even from solid banking institutions. It's the risk you take by doing your banking online.
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100% agree with this. Although I disagree that using online banking is comparable to this incident.
It is very easy for someone to not understand that when they take a picture on their phone, it can be upload to the internet if the correct settings are in place on the device. It is also easy for someone to not understand the access that could be obtained to those photos by simply breaking their password, because you can't log into a web portal and view your pictures, or simply download them with a click of a mouse. They magically show up in a folder on your computer, if iTunes is installed. This is designed this way so people who don't understand technology don't have any barriers. Most people don't even know how to take pictures off their own phones, let alone having a grasp that people on the internet could access those pictures in ANY way.
You would have to be a whole new level of stupid to not realize that there is online access to your bank account if you use online banking.