On Tuesday 28 October 2008 03:44 am, Chris Penn wrote: > an interesting question asked in the mint forum > http://forums.mint.com/showthread.php?t=823 > "What liability or insurance does Mint have in the event that Mint is > hacked and my financial details are revealed to the attacker, through > no fault of my own? " > > Answer > http://forums.mint.com/showthread.php?t=703 > "Regulation E, which is a set of rules issued by the Federal Reserve > governing electronic transactions(online banking, ATM withdrawals, > debit card payments …) limits your liability in most cases to $50 in > the event of fraud. Consumers must notify their bank of the fraud > within 2 business days. On the third day the liability goes up to > $500 and it can be more if notification occurs after 60 days."
The answer, then, really appears to be: "None". Note there is most likely no definitive law regulating third party sites except that since they're a California company they must notify me if the information wasn't kept on their systems in encrypted form. Ugh. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
