did they have 2fa on?
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2024
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Of course. It was on the office phone that gets passed around to whichever tech is on call. The on-call tech left it at Mcdonalds accidentally.
Weren't they hacked last time? Is this old news or a new hack they never learned from?
Friendly reminder to change your master password. You’re one SIM jack away from having your life locked away for ransom. They didn’t breach the seeds, but next time who knows. I would start migrating and changing 2FA codes just in case. You never know who might be spraying.
The problem is so many services requiring SMS to be that second factor. From what I've heard it's easy enough to steal a sim that if you're being explicitly targeted it's basically the same as no second factor. Yet even if using an authenticator app most services require you to still have SMS/phone as another option for the 2FA.
For Authy specifically they'd need to guess your master password and then hijack your phone number, and for users of Authy I suspect their passwords are not easily guessed as it's already a step above the standard SMS only 2FA most services require.
I hate, hate, hate that companies force 2FA on me just because goddamn Susans use ‘password’ as their password on every goddamn fucking app. My passwords are safe. They’re long and they contain ALL THE CHARACTER CLASSES. Fuck off with your fucking 2fa!
My passwords are safe.
No, they're really not. No matter how good your password is, it can absolutely be compromised. If you use a password manager, just look at how often sites tell you that you "forgot" your password, despite knowing you haven't.
Use 2fa for things that are absolutely vital. Whether you use it for your Blizzard account or Steam account is less important. (Though I'm pretty sure Blizzard has leaked passwords at least once, many years ago.)
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