A few months ago, I called Chase Bank about a question with my account, the phone teller asked me several security challenge questions that I thought were unusual. One of the questions was a certain uncle's home address. The impossible part of this was that I haven't had contact with this uncle in 25 years, and he lives in England (I'm in the US). I asked for the manager, and the manager explained that the security questions are all part of a new government mandate to verify identity and security information.
I eventually got the account information I was looking for and didn't think about it again. This morning, I was trying to access a credit card webpage to check my account, it didn't like my password. I was given two security challenge questions: 1. What is the last name of your fifth grade teacher? 2. What was the license plate of your first car? I'm reasonably sure that I had the correct name for the 5th grade teacher, but I must be an incredible slacker because I didn't remember the license plate number of my first vehicle - 25 years ago. Capital One promptly locked my account, for my security. It's scary that any database contains this much information about me. If it's in a database, it can be compromised. It's no wonder identity theft is running rampant in the US. Gary _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
