Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts

Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts by jan_Inkepa on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:24AM (#27301660)

They were also doing short-term loans [ https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56343942 ], which were for a while being pushed quite heavily in some internet community things I'm a part of.

Also, I figure they must be paying a lot of money to be the default payment provider on so many services.

For me, asking for my bank login details is...ridiculous - it'll be interesting to see if it is still following the same tactics in a few years.

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Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts by def_true_false on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:37AM (#27301779)

> asking for my bank login details is...ridiculous

Is there more information on this? Are they doing the same thing Plaid does in the US? That is, literally asking for user credentials to internet banking instead of using the banks' proper APIs?

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Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts by gpvos on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:38AM (#27302294)

I don't know about current Klarna, but they took over Sofortüberweisung, which has been doing exactly that since 2004. Avoided them like the plague ever since.

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Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts by jan_Inkepa on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:56AM (#27302489)

They are (or at least were, haven't checked in a while) asking for private bank account access details, yeah - https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/bweqaa/is_it_safe_...

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