This is Authy's second breach in two years

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.
  • Lem453@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Don’t use cloud based 2fa and you won’t need to wonder about this.

    Aegis is one of several opensource 2fa apps you can use instead.