One of the most attractive things about Mint is that it is free to sign up for and use. Screenshot of Mint | image source: The Next Web You simply enter your account credentials for each bank, and Mint collects the data from all your accounts and organizes it in easy to understand charts and graphs. If you’re not familiar with, it is an easy-to-use online system for tracking your finances. But still, is all that enough to justify putting our bank account login credentials into their hands? Are millions of us, myself included, completely crazy? What is ? In addition, it collects the data from all your accounts and organizes it in easy-to-understand charts and graphs, creating a handy dashboard for your money. (Read my full review of updated for 2018).
Mint promises to make life easier by automatically recording and categorizing every purchase, as well as helping us track our account balances. So given this reality, how is it that millions of us readily and willingly give our sacred bank account credentials into third-party hands? That’s right while it might seem crazy, the truth is that over 20 million users have signed up for, a cloud-based budgeting and personal financial management software. In fact, if before the Equifax breach your personal information had not been exposed at least once, chances are it has been now. This is just the latest in a string of breaches that include large, formerly-trusted American companies, like Target, J.P. Over 140 million consumers had their personal data stolen, including in the worst cases millions of credit card numbers. Equifax is one of the three major credit bureaus and safeguards one of the world’s largest repositories of personal financial information. A few weeks ago, Equifax announced it had been hacked.
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