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Use for questions about security practices used by banks and other financial institutions.

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Should a bank be able to shorten your password without your involvement?

Those 20 first characters are probably stored using a reasonable salted hashing scheme or a hardware security module (given all sorts of audit requirements, banks are in general slightly less likely to …
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Are banks significantly reducing security by migrating everyone to mobile banking?

I have noticed a disturbing trend across banks (in the EU). Previously, many banks used 2FA by combining a login/password for an online banking website with a mobile authenticator app. … So why do banks consider this reduction in security acceptable? …
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