X.com's Internet Banking Snafu
from the transfer-money-from-any-account dept
Here's a story about a really mess up in online banking. It seems that X.com for a month allowed anyone to transfer money from any account in the national banking system into their own. As you can imagine, that's not a really strong security policy. Apparently, it's now been fixed, but it certainly should make people think a little.
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