Chuckanut
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The recent invasion of computer systems by criminals at Target, Neiman Marcus and Michael's has got me thinking about how much risk I am taking keeping most of my funds at one investment house. Also, a few years ago, my local bank found skimmers on their cash machines that were used to steal customer account numbers and passwords.
What really concerns me more than the fact that these criminals are invading networks, is the fact that they seem to be able to spend weeks, sometime months, scoping out the computer system, looking for weaknesses to exploit, and then skimming customer information.
These events have me thinking that I need to spread out my retirement assets so that in the event the computer system of one financial group is compromised, all of my assets won't be taken, frozen, or otherwise be made somehow unavailable to me for an extended period of time.
Any thoughts? Is this a wise precaution? Or just paranoia settling in at a young age?
What really concerns me more than the fact that these criminals are invading networks, is the fact that they seem to be able to spend weeks, sometime months, scoping out the computer system, looking for weaknesses to exploit, and then skimming customer information.
These events have me thinking that I need to spread out my retirement assets so that in the event the computer system of one financial group is compromised, all of my assets won't be taken, frozen, or otherwise be made somehow unavailable to me for an extended period of time.
Any thoughts? Is this a wise precaution? Or just paranoia settling in at a young age?