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Nov 27, 2024
8:19:23am

VACOUGFAN All-American

This is why 2FA to SMS is no bueno.

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VACOUGFAN

Bio page: VACOUGFAN
Joined: Sep 5, 2001
Last login: Nov 27, 2024
Total posts: 63,645 (19,857 FO)

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Messages

Author

Time

Wild day yesterday with someone taking over my phone number

Coog4Life

8:07am

That sucks. Most people aren’t aware how easily they can be hacked.

Yiowa

8:14am

Wow that’s scary. Verizon needs to do something about that authorized dealer

8:14am

Very scary. Any idea how it happened? How does one defend against this?

Florida Man

8:15am

And idea why you were targeted? Did you recently get rid of a device?

durandal

8:16am

No clue why or how I was targeted. My device is 3 years old

Coog4Life

8:18am

Wow - that was close. You might want to sign up for Identity Guard. One nice thing about their service is that they keep

HarlemCoug

8:17am

This is why 2FA to SMS is no bueno.

VACOUGFAN

8:19am

yep, I felt the full brunt of that yesterday. Felt so naked with no control

Coog4Life

8:22am

Always use app based MFA whereever possible. Or a hardware token for your bank.

VACOUGFAN

8:25am

We had the same thing happen yesterday with Verizon. Not sure what’s up there

BLUEGRENADE

9:26am

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