SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoAuthy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolenappleinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up1210arrow-down12cross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.worldlinustechtips@lemmit.onlinetechnology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1208arrow-down1external-linkAuthy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolenappleinsider.comSandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square98fedilinkcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.worldlinustechtips@lemmit.onlinetechnology@lemmit.online
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoAlso, Google Authenticator now supports backup. Aegis is another free alternative.
minus-squareaard@kyu.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoAnd as soon as I learned about that I stopped using it. Turns out it was the right choice - since then more then one company had breaches where authenticator seeds extracted from a google account were used to bypass 2fa.
Also, Google Authenticator now supports backup. Aegis is another free alternative.
And as soon as I learned about that I stopped using it. Turns out it was the right choice - since then more then one company had breaches where authenticator seeds extracted from a google account were used to bypass 2fa.