Reddit Got Hacked Thanks to a Woefully Insecure Two-Factor Setup
Aug 03, 2018•5 min
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Episode description
Reddit said in a blog post Wednesday that a hacker broke into the company's systems in June and gained access to a variety of data, including user emails, source code and internal files, and “all Reddit data from 2007 and before.” And it likely could have been avoided if some Reddit employees were using two-factor authentication apps or physical keys instead of their phone numbers.
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