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Re:Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for... by xkcd-sucks on Friday February 24, 2023 @05:49PM (#34931287)
At the very least one would expect the bank to be salting and hashing - PrivacyDotCom presumably has to keep the plaintext in some form in order to use them!

As a secondary concern, the bank has occasional 2fa, and definitely does some kind of anomaly detection. Primed by the ickiness of the user/pass request I just had a mental image of some hacky Selenium script on an AWS IP address filling out the login form and getting my online banking disabled proactively.

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