Not only are there enormous protections with the mis-use of one's credit card, but the 'password'/card number is randomly generated and not used elsewhere.
A regular person is quite likely to reuse their favourite password for their bank login and therefore expose most of their other services when Plaid is inevitably hacked, or more likely, when someone pretends to be Plaid with typosquatting and the user has learned that giving passwords away is OK.
I think it is the other way around, sorry.
The card number is visible in plain sight. The card number is reused everywhere. Merchant employees often have access to these numbers, and have reportedly used them illegally.
Yes, there are protections, but they often apply only after the fact, which can cause lots of problems, e.g. if you're traveling and reached your card limit. Also, not everyone checks their transactions at the end of the month, so many cases of fraud may go undetected.
Given modern security methods, credit card numbers are just plain silly, and yes, they may be even dangerous.
Not true. My mother got a free credit card that she never used and never even took out of her safe box, and a few weeks ago someone used that card to buy a Microsoft gift card. Luckily for her, she regularly checks the bank's statements.
I'm convinced there's a workaround to buy stuff using just the numbers, because that's how cards used to work a few decades ago.