MadMacs0 wrote:
I'm pretty sure I would go to all the sites I could remember signing into that had significant financial data of mine on them and change my passwords. If I used the same password on multiple sites (I don't) I would change all those, as well. I already check all my transactions on a daily basis due to a mysterious Credit Card compromise a few months back, but if I wasn't, I would do that. A site called mint.com (run by Intuit) makes it easy to see everything at once, but the in order to do that I have to provide significant information to them.
I did go to all of my credit card/bank account sites and changed my user names and passwords. And this time, I'll print the info out, but won't do what I've done before (which was to store that info in a spreadsheet that I had saved to my drive).
As far as mint.com or any other third party is concerned (including the online backup-service companies), I simply don't trust them and/or don't have high enough confidence in the security measures they have in place to hand over my personal info.
I would certainly endorse the use of Little Snitch as being worth the time, money and effort to install, setup and maintain. It's not for everyone, but I've used it for years to keep track of what information leaves my computer. During the period when it first alerted users to the existence of the Flashback "N" variant I gained new respect for it's capability.
Thinking about Little Snitch again...I think I read somewhere that FlashBack checks out the system it has targeted and doesn't install itself if it detects the presence of Little Snitch. (If true, I don't know how FlashBack got into my system.)