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by zeeZ 853 days ago
Yeah, this is a phishing attack replacing the terminal with a compromised one.

The terminal used the PIN for three transactions: The original sign-in process, the attacker's ID verification process for the bank, and a "Selbstauskunft" which essentially is an echo service that returns data read from the card back to the user.

It's not a very performant process and needs to happen near real time.