The Bank of America application 2.12 for Android stores a security question's answer in cleartext, which might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading application data.
Weaknesses in this category are related to the design and implementation of data confidentiality and integrity. Frequently these deal with the use of encoding techniques, encryption libraries, and hashing algorithms. The weaknesses in this category could lead to a degradation of the quality data if they are not addressed.