On Line banking locked out

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I was transferring from one account to another this morning when for security I was asked "what is your favorite food". I set this account up years ago and have no recollection of the food question, anyhow my taste has probably changed in the past ten years anyway. So I entered bread which was rejected then tomato's then beetroot all rejected followed by a security lock out.
It appears that I now have to proceed with a complete new registration before I can access my on line banking. I am all for security but lets have questions that don't change with taste.....

 

[klaatu]

The answer is always "curry", obviously.

 

[pappajohn]

Stock question......mothers maiden name.
That is NEVER going to change.

 

[buttons]

Stock question......mothers maiden name.
That is NEVER going to change.

Agree but what is your favorite food is nonsense. Many of us have more than one favorite food.

 

[SomeoneElse]

Stock question......mothers maiden name.
That is NEVER going to change.

NEVER NEVER NEVER use anything that can be researched as a password.

One bank account wanted town of birth, mother's first name and father's first name If you know which county I'm from and my approx age, its easy to find them. As there is a geneology web site for that county that will give you all three on one page.

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[pappajohn]

NEVER NEVER NEVER use anything that can be researched as a password.

One bank account wanted town of birth, mother's first name and father's first name If you know which county I'm from and my approx age, its easy to find them. As there is a geneology web site for that county that will give you all three on one page.

I think the security dept of both my banks would delete that option if they felt there was a serious security risk.
But I agree if would be more secure to use your own security question and answer rather than choosing one of their options.
If hackers did work it out they would be well pi$$ed off.
If they find the answer then the monetary value in my account is worth less than their time taken.

 

[Welsh girl]

NEVER NEVER NEVER use anything that can be researched as a password.

One bank account wanted town of birth, mother's first name and father's first name If you know which county I'm from and my approx age, its easy to find them. As there is a geneology web site for that county that will give you all three on one page.

I use mother's maiden name but it's a wrong name as I only found out her real maiden name when she died so no one can find that out. That name is available only if medieval torture is used.

 

[buttons]

NEVER NEVER NEVER use anything that can be researched as a password.

One bank account wanted town of birth, mother's first name and father's first name If you know which county I'm from and my approx age, its easy to find them. As there is a geneology web site for that county that will give you all three on one page.

If this was the only security question then you might have a point, however to enable anyone to get to this point you have to cover a plethora of high security processes. This was from within my own personnel banking pages.

 

[SomeoneElse]

If this was the only security question then you might have a point, however to enable anyone to get to this point you have to cover a plethora of high security processes. This was from within my own personnel banking pages.

"plethora" hardly you are asked for account name and a password, then you are asked one of four security questions. I told you three of the questions the other is name of your first school. needless to say historical factural answers will all be wrong for my account.

 

[iandsm]

"plethora" hardly you are asked for account name and a password, then you are asked one of four security questions. I told you three of the questions the other is name of your first school. needless to say historical factural answers will all be wrong for my account.

But you don't have to tell the truth. You could say your mothers maiden name was "Hitler"and your first school "Ghengis Khan girls academy" no would know you made up. The bank certainly would not question it and as long as you remember it would be fine.

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[ymfb]

id go with curry