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From: Davey <davey@example.invalid>
Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Mobile banking: alarm as fraudsters take over handsets and raid
 accounts
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:05:11 +0100
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:48:38 +0100
Clive Page <usenet@page2.eu> wrote:

> On 14/07/2024 00:20, Chris wrote:
> 
> > Not the same thing. Bank apps ask you to set a PIN as an added
> > level of security. People are lazy and don't want to remember
> > another PIN so use the same one as the phone lock screen.  
> 
> I have no idea why the banks have recently made the security of their
> apps weaker.  I have two banking apps on my phone, each of them used
> to have a longish alphanumeric password that I had chosen (two
> different passwords of course).  But recent compulsory "upgrades" to
> each App have made me chose a 5-digit or 6-digit PIN.   I have chosen
> different PINs and neither is the same as the one I use to unlock the
> phone, but all the same it's obviously less secure than before.  Can
> anyone think why on earth they have done that?  It seems crazy to me.
> 
> 

What is the banks' explanation?

-- 
Davey.