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Originally Posted by Azure
Interesting read on how an email account got hacked and the owner had over $3000 stolen.
http://www.theverge.com/a/anatomy-of-a-hack
Moral of the story? Why the hell would you use a mail.com email just because you can't get the username you want on gmail anymore? If you set up two factor authentication on Gmail, and have a strong password, it is pretty tough for someone to hack your email. Pretty dumb decisions made by the guy who got hacked. |
He only used Mail.com for forwarding.
His gmail 2-factor WAS hacked. The hacker was able to cajole a csr to change a phone number to a phone the hacker controlled, then used the accessibility feature to have the authentication code dictated.
Seems that the hacker had a pretty good plan - it didn't take long.
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Anatomy Of A Hack
