I linked an account with Plaid. If I change my username and password . . . As I understand it, Plaid now potentially has my username and password stored somewhere Now let's say that I change my username and password to something that isn't in Plaid Am I now mostly protected against a malicious actor logging into my account if they get my username and password from Plaid? What if they take control of Plaid?
authentication - Is Plaid, a service which collects user’s banking . . . Plaid has raised billions in funding! I would think with Plaid using bank logos to make their “fake” bank login forms look legitimate, banks would be after Plaid with lawsuits But apparently some of them are investors! On Plaid’s website Citi, American Express, and others are listed as investors
Is Plaid safe if I change the password after deposit? Let's say you trade on Coinbase Every time you need to deposit money via Plaid, you: change the password to your online bank account pair your bank with Coinbase deposit money unpair your bank (I'm not sure if necessary) change back the password Would you consider this approach 100% safe?
Security: Plaid vs Quicken vs Mint - Information Security Stack Exchange Plaid is a service provider, Mint is a service While they're both guilty of doing something security peeps aren't comfortable with, Plaid is a higher-impact example As @schroeder says, however, we'd need to know what criticisms you're looking at to have useful feedback
authentication - Can someone steal money from my bank account if they . . . This question is likely to be country-specific In the US, an account number is generally not enough to steal money from someone's account This is fortunate, because every time you write a check or make a bank payment to someone, they receive your account number However, learning someone's the bank account number is enough to learn their account balance There is an attack that is not widely
Are there joint password accounts? (Like bank accounts) Online joint accounts that are similar to bank accounts that are joint accounts? Say you want to have two partners for a certain account, let's say a PayPal account, and you want to make it so tha
Storing basic financial data - Information Security Stack Exchange I'll be using the Plaid api, which abstracts away account routing numbers, etc Thus, what I'll have access to, and be trying to store, would be the account name, balance, type, and transactional data (amount, location, name, type, date, category) I'd also like to store the user's name and email