Concerns About Mint.com? The Fundamental Issue

The fundamental issue with account aggregation services like Mint.com and Yodlee which automatically log into bank accounts is that it increases the chance that a hacker will break into your account. No matter how good the security of services like Mint.com is, nothing is 100% safe. There's a good discussion of this issue at this Simple Dollar blog post.

If you have an ING Direct account, you can have Mint.com access the account without worries. I described this feature in this post.