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ThePhysicist ◴[] No.27301428[source]
Their German counterpart, Sofortüberweisung, didn't properly blacklist test credentials given out by banks e.g. to developers in the beginning, so people could simply use those and pay for goods and services with fake accounts.

For me there are so many red flags with all these services, as they basically "steal" your credentials to log into your online banking. And while they claim that they only use the credentials to make transfers they could as well look at all my other account data. I really wonder how such a scheme can be legal and how banks can allow this, as they normally tell people to never give their credentials to anyone. The situation of course recently improved with the mandated 2FA for logins and transfers, but still there are so many attack vectors in this model that it boggles my mind how it can still exist.

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1. toxik ◴[] No.27301463[source]
Hear hear, I used Klarna (not by choice) and it surprised me they would feign being me in interactions with my bank. Exactly the type of behavior techies are trying to teach the older generations to NOT fall for.

With this, we know that Klarna's software quality is papier-mâché level. I am happy I refused to let Klarna have my account authorization.