Twilio Says Hackers Identified Cell Phone Numbers of Two-Factor App Authy Users (techcrunch.com) 10
Twilio, a major U.S. messaging company, has confirmed that unauthorized actors had identified phone numbers associated with users of its Authy two-factor authentication app. The disclosure comes after a hacker claimed last week to have obtained 33 million phone numbers from Twilio. A Twilio spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company had detected an unauthenticated endpoint allowing access to Authy account data, including phone numbers. The endpoint has since been secured.
spammer paradise (Score:2)
Twilio is a shithole spammer paradise. Fuck those guys. Twilio does more for nefarious activity than anything else.
https://tcpaworld.com/2024/05/... [tcpaworld.com]
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Oh, the company that exposed 167 million accounts and only reported it four years later [troyhunt.com].
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Yes, it is a shit show all around.
How nice!! (Score:3)
That's not how you do 2FA (Score:3)
2FA doesn't need a phone number.
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That's right, it doesn't. According to the article they collected the info and then stored it somewhere accessible without any authentication.
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So glad I left three months ago (Score:3)
I left this app and reset all my 2fa three months ago now. Mainly because they shut down the desktop app, leaving me with no backup device.
I'm so glad I moved to better 2fa apps now.
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Would you mind sharing which ones you tried and which one you settled on in the end? I think quite a few people may be looking for alternatives now, and someone sharing their experience may save them a lot of time.