There once was one credit card entered into QB but it was removed. QB did not clean up the data and left (as I remember) an expiration date. This QB encrypted and password protected the database.

This is NO sensitive data in QB at all, but still needs to be encrypted.

The simplest solution would be for QB to disable allowing either checking account or credit card information if the user decides to not password protect.

If I were an employee, I would be embarrassed that my company had not taken action to address this issue considering how many people wanted the problem fixed. Forcing users to enter passwords because the programmers did not clean up after deleted entries is unforgivable.

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A simple warning and a bit of coding fixes the problem.

***WARNING FOR PC VERSIONS ***

For yours and your customers security, if you decide to enter either checking account information for your business or payment information for your customers, the database will be encrypted and password protected. This is the best practice and required by these entities.

Should you not want to password protect the data, these sections will be disabled and will be unavailable in your QuickBooks data.