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Trouble at Yodlee? [updated]

Posted by Tad Johnson - Apr 20th, 2008 at 18:04

I’ve previously spoken highly of Yodlee’s Moneycenter service. It’s really great and works well. . . until it doesn’t. For reasons as of yet unknown, the Yodlee site has been down since Friday. I’m pretty certain that it’s really down and not some bizarre DNS wormhole (sorry, IT joke).

I work in the IT field, so I know how things can go wrong with computer systems. Even so, a 72 hour outage is pretty bad for any company who expects to be taken seriously. This also belies the trouble with trusting one site with all your financial accounts. (Though to be fair, I could just log in to my accounts individually. But really, who wants to do that?)

Let’s hope that by the time this gets published Yodlee has restored service and we can all go back to personal finance bliss.

[Update : As of 21:32 central time, the site is back online. Looks like they were just waiting to get called out by this pillar of financial blogdom]