Screen Scraping Makes Web Comeback Content Integrity6/5/2000; 7:16:13 AM April 18, 2000:

Screen scraping's original purpose was to get information out of mainframe computers and into client server systems. The new breed of screen scrapers use HyperText Markup Language to pull information off one Web site and deposit it into another site or a database, even if the two sites are not connected or if one site would prefer not to share information with the other.

Emphasis mine.Damage caused? You bet!

Screen scrapers may make it less likely that consumers will want to visit their banks' Web site, and they certainly don't help the brands the banks have worked so hard to build. They also introduce some security risk, since a hacker who gets into an aggregator's database of login information would be able to easily empty a bank account.

"Brand" is another word for the reputation of a company... which lives or dies based on the integrity of that brand.