I still can’t believe American banks lets you login with just username / password? Surely there is some id check or at least two factors involved?
Nope, several years ago someone complained that their steam account has better protection then their bank account. We’re now in 2023 and that statement still holds. It’s quite scary really. Bank websites that heavily rely on third party scripts ,“MFA” logins based on something you know and something you know. Account verification question based on code words or security questions based on public information. Worst of all, the ignorance of it all. “We got hacked, here have a identity protection bandage, comes with an automatic subscription after several years”.
There are some that do, true, but also a boatload that don’t. In my personal experience, most don’t.
I wanted to use a 2FA device for my banking accounts and no bank that I have spoken to would allow it. I’d had a breach on one account because my information had been leaked from several different places including the federal government and a credit agency and as a result the person used my leaked information to validate their way into my checking account. At that point they let me set up a pass phrase and a couple of other random safeguards. This was all well and good but it didn’t make me feel safer than having that account protected by a physical 2FA device. I was also given more free credit monitoring (which I’ve gotten like 4 or 5 times in the last 10 years or so). Still bugs me to this day.
Bank of America has two factor and optional 3 three factor integration, what are you talking about?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/how-enable-two-factor-authentication-bank-america
Here’s the silly thing - most other countries have had a form of 2FA for decades. Yes, decades. Some of the earliest ones used to sent you a printed list of codes and asked you a random code from that list. This was before the Internet even when you had to use a modem to dial in to a bank to transmit your transactions.
Yeah I’m European end my job in accounting makes me have to work with American banks regularly. So let’s just say my expectations on American banks are quite low.
Wait, American banks don’t go with extra authentication? I couldn’t log in anywhere without SMS or additional apps or whatever. Depending on your bank you might even have to go through three different stages of authentication. Over the pond you just go username / password?
They do. It’s not as stout as basically anywhere else but 2fa is and has been a thing here for quite some time and specifically as long as I’ve banked Mobile ACC that’s gotta be 5 years+.
I’m honestly not sure where this whole comment chain is coming from , I guess people don’t just ask and instead assume it’s not offered. I dunno it’s a very weird argument to me since my bank has always had 2fa and alllows third party geolocating 3fa.