Aqbanking problems?

[Mike Leone]

On 6/4/2010 10:43 AM, David Reiser had this to say:
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> On Jun 4, 2010, at 10:22 AM, AS wrote:
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>> I just got a letter from my credit card company saying that my account had been "compromised" (fancy word for being ripped off).
>>
>> What is the possibility that Aqbanking is the cause of it or the source from which some bum got my card info?
>>
> Nearly zero. All the communication aqbanking does is either https encrypted (ofx communications) or one of the approved encryption schemes used by the German banks.

And besides, what probably happened is that some bad guy got into your 
bank's server and took copies of a data file. Or someone left a file 
like a spreadsheet with account info somewhere for the thief to find. 
You hear about laptops being lost or stolen, that had account data on 
it; that may have been it, too. In fact, any of those scenarios is much 
more likely than you were specifically targeted for a main-in-the-middle 
attack, or that someone sniffed your traffic as it went through a router 
somewhere ...




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