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Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen (appleinsider.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 150 points 3 months ago (37 children)

'hacked'. Eh. There was an API endpoint left open that allowed them to basically just spam it with no rate limiting. They used the lack of a rate limit to just pull the data out of the API that it was made to produce.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This isn't about being pedantic but sure, mate.

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