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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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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They wanted to let companies pay for a non standard 2fa code generation tied to the phone number as it was easier than the mainstream option that was the almost abandoned google authenticator that didn't allow backups.

Cloudflare, humble bundle used that scheme and I hated them for that. Seems that now that plan failed and essentially now authy is a money-losing operation for twilio and this shows on the unsecured API access that allowed the hack

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also, Google Authenticator now supports backup. Aegis is another free alternative.

[–] aard@kyu.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And as soon as I learned about that I stopped using it. Turns out it was the right choice - since then more then one company had breaches where authenticator seeds extracted from a google account were used to bypass 2fa.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 0 points 4 months ago

It's completely optional to connect a Google account. You can always back them up using the QR code (just take a picture with another device)