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Comment Tracking Services an Online Banking Security Concern?

Written by Nickel - 3 Comments
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As I noted the other day, we’re changing our reward credit card strategy, in part due to perceived inflexibility on Citi’s part when it comes to making automated payments. It turns out that I may have been wrong about what you can and cannot do, so I just hopped on over to the Citi website to request the enrollment kit for the Autopay service. While I was there, I ran across the following message:

Please note: Customers using comment or blog tracking services on their computers run the risk that information submitted here could be displayed on those websites. Please disable your comment and blog tracking service before using the Citi Cards Message Center.

I’m assuming that they’re talking here about services like coComment, which allows you to track your conversations (primarily weblog comments) across websites. I’ve never used any of these services, but it seems like this could be a relatively major security hole if using them does indeed result in things like supposedly secure conversations with your bank being slurped up and deposited on a third-party site.

As an aside, there’s no need to use these sorts of services to keep track of conversations here at FiveCentNickel… Rather, simply check the box labeled:

“Notify me of followup comments via e-mail”

before submitting your comment and you’re good to go (and you can cancel these notifications at any time).

Published on November 28th, 2007 - 3 Comments
Filed under: Banking, Credit Cards, Online

About the author: Nickel is the founder and editor-in-chief of this site. He's a thirty-something family man who has been writing about personal finance since 2005, and guess what? He's on Twitter!

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3 Responses to “Comment Tracking Services an Online Banking Security Concern?”

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    Mrs. Micah Says:

    That’s a pretty big security glitch, especially if they’re public….

  2. 2
    Rob Lewis Says:

    It amazes me that something like that would be allowed to happen – do coComment and the like track comments in forms secured with SSL, which I presume Citi would be using for sending them messages.

    I’m a little unclear how the comment trackers work, but I’d be surprised if they did track such messages.

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    used vans girl Says:

    That’s a bit worrying why don’t they disable the feature on their site like ING Direct and Commerce Bank.

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