Comment on Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen
emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 4 months agojust look at how often sites tell you that you “forgot” your password, despite knowing you haven’t
wtf are you talking about?
Comment on Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen
emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 4 months agojust look at how often sites tell you that you “forgot” your password, despite knowing you haven’t
wtf are you talking about?
anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
For a few months, I had been getting emails from booking.com saying that I had forgotten my password. Probably scammers with my Gmail username futilely attempting to use the forgotten password link to get at stored payment info. Once I set up 2FA on the account, the emails stopped.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
How would that stop the emails, though?
anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I was wrong. It wasn’t the forgotten password link. It was one of those sites that sent a login link instead asking for a password when you put in your username. That changed once I set up 2FA.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Ah okay, yeah that makes more sense.