This is is funny. I’ve been fighting this bug in this javascript library used by my bank’s online banking system. Contacting my credit union goes no where (I get responses like “use IE”, fluuugg).

So I did some digging and it looks as if they don’t write their own software. It’s apparently a product of Princeton eCom (before they got bought out), and a lot of banks use it, so I know there are a lot people fighting this same issue. If you use Firefox (which has less issues but its still broken) or Safari (which is completely unusable) then you probably see this problem.

It’s kind of funny though after doing some digging. Just check out how many banking sites are really using the same software. Recently my bank had a core system upgrade and afterword an automated bot called me that the system upgrade was done but the caller ID had one of these other banks on it. I’ve also wondered why the root of the domain on these sites returns that the directory listing is denied. Made me wonder how many of these sites may be running on the same systems.

Check it out for yourself.

Veridian Credit Union:
https://homebanking.veridiancu.org/veridian/ForgottenPassword/ForgotYourPassword.aspx

Texan’s Credit Union:

https://online.texanscu.org/Texans/ForgottenPassword/ForgotYourPassword.aspx

Oregon Community Credit Union:
https://internetbanking.oregoncommunitycu.org/OCCU/ForgottenPassword/ForgotYourPassword.aspx

And tons more…
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