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Because Plaid handles bank credentials and full financial transaction histories for millions of consumers, the adequacy of its security measures directly determines the risk of large-scale financial data breaches.
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Plaid stores your bank account credentials and complete financial transaction history, making it a high-value target for data breaches — a security failure at Plaid could expose your banking login credentials, transaction patterns, income, and account balances to malicious actors.
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We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to personal information transmitted, stored or otherwise processed. These measures take into account the ...
We implement technical, administrative, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee that personal information will not be accesse...
We use reasonable physical, technical, and administrative measures to protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. While we take steps to protect your information, no system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the securit...
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Because Plaid handles bank credentials and full financial transaction histories for millions of consumers, the adequacy of its security measures directly determines the risk of large-scale financial data breaches.
Plaid stores your bank account credentials and complete financial transaction history, making it a high-value target for data breaches — a security failure at Plaid could expose your banking login credentials, transaction patterns, income, and account balances to malicious actors.
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