Originally Posted by
tom911
For us neophytes, is it as easy to hack a banking or mutual find site, or do they have more safeguards built in for this type of thing?
It's not impossible for a major site to be compromised, but it it not usually by this kind of hacking. They have IT people on the payroll 24x7 who are looking out for this kind of issue and cooperate closely with the software vendors to close holes before they can be exploited.
The sites in the news seem to lose their data by leaving laptops lying around to be stolen.
