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by sfriedr 1509 days ago
Diversifying your banking lowers your risk or being locked out of an account, but increases the risk of data and identity theft somewhat, as various digital copies of your IDs and other data now reside on even more servers, creating a larger attack surface in case of a breach of one of the banks.
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It's fine. The credit agencies already leaked all of everyone's info so we don't have to worry anymore.
Working in the sector it’s everywhere already even if you have multiple bank accounts or not. The banks are by far the least of your worries.