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It could be unrelated to a prior jailreak - I had installed the iOS 14 Beta and my banking software insisted my phone had been jailbroken. Fortunately it allowed me to 'Accept the risk' and continue.

I think the most likely scenario is that there is a third party library or service to detect jailbreaks and it is faulty.

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There is speculation in the replies to this tweet that the stronger sandboxing could be triggering something. It could also be leftover jailbreak files as he didn't do a full restore (or used backups from when it was jailbroken).

Out of curiosity are you with BoA? That was the bank mentioned in the thread w/ a similar detection after the 14 upgrade.

Ten bucks says that by you 'accepting the risk' your accounts are now flagged as not be covered for any losses that the bank 'says' are due to hacking as per some legalese in one of their 100 page agreements.

Just saying this sounds tinfoil hat to me, but I would seriously consider changing banks. I would not want to hold any account, especially credit cards, for a bank that has allowed me to opt to ignore a security risk

Oh, my bank did this as well (maybe even the same bank). I didn't think anything of it except I chuckled a little bit and felt sorry for them that it looked like a significant amount of people suddenly got jailbroken phones.

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