Summary

  • Authy is a 2FA app that recently suffered a data breach that exposed more than 33 million phone numbers.
  • An unsecured API endpoint allowed threat actors to collect linked numbers.
  • If you think your personal information might be among the 33 million leaked numbers, consider securing your accounts with 2FA and be wary of SMS phishing attacks.
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Don’t use cloud based 2fa and you won’t need to wonder about this.

Aegis is one of several opensource 2fa apps you can use instead.

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Ok, but what happens if your phone gets stolen?

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The same as for anything else if your phone gets stolen. You restore from backups.

Aegis allows you to make a backup that you can keep yourself on your computer, your own cloud storage etc.

Every OS has some kind of built in vault/encryption feature. Put the file in there. It only needs to be updated when you add another 2fa account (so very infrequently)

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