Comments on: Is Your Bank Account Easy to Hack? Mine is.

By: Colin Hall

Colin Hall — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:46:44 +0000

I don’t know about hackable, but my bank is just plain complacent. We recently noticed that £745 had been removed from our bank account. We called the bank and they said it was a direct debit transaction from our account. They gave us the details of who had placed the DD request and gave the impression that the blame lay with them.

We called the company concerned, a property agent, and they apologized, saying that they had just filed the DD from a tenant of theirs and that maybe it was a number mis-quoted. The money was refunded. I asked for a copy of the DD form and when I saw it I nearly flipped. The form had indeed got our bank account on it, but the names and addresses were not ours. So, the bank had simply passed the DD on the bank account number !

If you think your account is protected by the greatest systems in the world, think again ! Don’t forget the human factor.

Cheers

Colin

By: Marquis Harvie

Marquis Harvie — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:36:04 +0000

Heya just wanted to give you a brief heads up and let you know a few of the pictures aren’t loading properly. I’m not sure why but I think its a linking issue. I’ve tried it in two different internet browsers and both show the same outcome.

By: Gabriel Nagmay

Gabriel Nagmay — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:18:37 +0000

Triple-stupid: This means that they are storing the actual passwords rather then a hash. One hacker (or upset employee) could compromise all the accounts at once!