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

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dev_null@lemmy.ml
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GA now backups your codes in your Google account, so this doesn’t happen anymore.

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ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org
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They had an obvious solution which is export to an encrypted text files and went with the option that lowers your security

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Google usually goes with the lowest common denominator solution. There is a staggering amount of people who don’t know what is a file, let alone that phones have any.

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