My health insurance company recently sent me a letter.<\/p>\n
They just wanted to let me know that their security systems had been breached. I, now, had the fabulous opportunity to sign up for free identity protection for a whole year. This wasn’t something I needed to worry about, they assured me, well I should worry a little because some of my personal information was stored in the area that had been accessed and I should keep an eye on my credit report for the next year or more, but really don’t worry because everything is under control.<\/p>\n
Around the same time, I’m not making this up, my e-mail account started sending all my friends and family a message about a great way to make money from home with a link to check it out.<\/p>\n
So, from a completely average non-expert point-of-view, I’m just really surprised that people don’t worry about mint.com<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0Obviously, I can’t claim to have an unbiased opinion, because I use Checkbook Pro<\/a>. Still, as a lover of Psychology, I wonder how the idea of storing all one’s personal and banking information in one place could be viewed as a good idea.<\/p>\n It seems counter intuitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My health insurance company recently sent me a letter. They just wanted to let me know that their security systems had been breached. I, now, had the fabulous opportunity to sign up for free identity protection for a whole year. … Continue reading