Debezium for MySQL tries to flush a table for a database not in the database whitelist

Upon creating a connector, Debezium tries to flush performance_schema.accounts table although the database.whitelist is filtering another schema. this fails on permissions -
org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.ConnectException: command denied to user '<username>'@'' for table 'accounts' Error code: 1142; SQLSTATE: 42000.

The error doesn't happen on 0.9.5.final