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Stolen credit cards up for grabs on Meta’s Threads. (www.theregister.com)

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[–] noxy@yiffit.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What the hell is "3D Secure"?

[–] diffusive@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s a mechanism that is compulsory in EU (and nearby countries like Switzerland).

When you try to spend money online (without the plastic card), you need a second factor. In practice in, let’s say, Amazon there is an iframe with a page of your bank that asks to confirm the operation on the banking app or insert the code they sent you by SMS or things like that

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, I've occasionally had a similar thing. Not common but several times