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Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen (appleinsider.com)

submitted 4 months ago by SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

just 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 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How would that stop the emails, though?

[–] anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 4 months ago

Ah okay, yeah that makes more sense.