Comment on Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen

• stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But they are using a loophole to gain sensitive data. They did not gain unauthorised access to the system.

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  • Guest_User@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They absolutely gained unauthorized access to the data. Their access was not intended or sanctioned. If it was intended to be public and accessible like it was, this wouldn’t be a story and they wouldn’t have locked down the access.

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    • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But by the guy’s definition, they also used a loophole to extract sensitive information, so it it also an exploit.

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