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Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen (appleinsider.com)
submitted 7 months ago by SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't synced solutions completely defeat the purpose of MFA?

[โ€“] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not if you protect the master key with MFA, like a yubikey. Then it's cryptographically secure for quite a while..at least until quantum computing is affordable enough to be used against your data. Or both the database and your yubikey are compromised.