FSFE reports trouble with payment provider

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is reportingthat payment provider Nexi has terminated its contract without priornotice, which means that a number of FSFE supporters' recurringpayments have been halted:

Over the past few months, our former payment provider NexiS.p.A. ("Nexi") requested access to private data, which we understoodto be specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters. Wehave refused this request. All our attempts to clarify Nexi's request,or to understand how their need for such information was necessary andlegal, were met with what we consider to be vague and unsatisfactoryexplanations relating to a general need for risk analysis.

[...] The decisions that Nexi has made are incomprehensible tous. Over the last months, as part of a security audit that Nexiclaimed to be conducting, we have provided them with large amounts ofthe FSFE's financial documentation, which even included privateinformation of our executive staff. We have answered all of theirquestions. But we have to draw a line when private companies like Nexidemand access to the sensitive and private data of our supporters.

According to the blog post, more than 450 supporters have beenaffected by this. The FSFE's donation pages have been updated with itsnew payment provider.