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by nikolay 2348 days ago
Worst of all, it's a full access, not a scope-restricted one. Imagine somebody hacking Plaid and you disabling 2FA, because otherwise you can't use some of the fancy new services you saw on Product Hunt.
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Worst of all, is their privacy policy.

> We retain information we collect about you for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, unless a longer retention period is required OR PERMITTED under applicable law.

It is not necessary to "hack" Plaid.

Yeah, it's the users who got hacked when they signed up.