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smackfu on Oct 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses...

Isn't that same "raw bank account information" on every check you write?

jfb on Oct 29, 2014 | [–]

Well, sure, but it's a lot easier to steal a million of them from the "secure cloud technology" than in person.

Perdition on Oct 30, 2014 | | [–]

America is one of very few developed countries in which checks are not an anachronism for precisely this reason.

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