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Lending Tree loses your data - watch out PFM’s

May 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Lending Tree is getting sued for a dreaded, TJ-Max-esqe data breach.  Apparently caused by some of their partners, Lending Tree managed to lose names and social security numbers for a number of their clients.  It serves a great reminder, that even the biggest institutions are not immune for data theft.  This is particularly important to [...]

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Mint grabs some big VC money!

October 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’m really curious to see how the battle of the personal finance sites plays out in the next year or so.  Mint announced this morning that they’ve raised $4.7M in VC money.  Wesabe has some VC backing, but not nearly that much.  While I prefer the Wesabe model of the community helping each other find [...]

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