Summary

  • Authy is a 2FA app that recently suffered a data breach that exposed more than 33 million phone numbers.
  • An unsecured API endpoint allowed threat actors to collect linked numbers.
  • If you think your personal information might be among the 33 million leaked numbers, consider securing your accounts with 2FA and be wary of SMS phishing attacks.
  • limerod@reddthat.comOPM
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    6 months ago

    Good question. You would need to start by changing all your account passwords. Next export your 2 factor auth codes. Import your auth codes in a good open source auth app. Then, one by one set new auth codes for your accounts.

    This should be sufficient to protect your online accounts.

    • Dymonika@beehaw.org
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      5 months ago

      Are your bullet points AI-gen, though? The way the third bullet talked about 2FA basically kept no context of the article

      • limerod@reddthat.comOPM
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        5 months ago

        They are not my bullet points. It’s from the android police article. It’s possible the author used a LLM software to generate a summary for the article.