Two-factor FAIL: Chap gets pwned after 'AT&T falls for hacker tricks'

from The Register on 2017-07-10 23:31 (#2W53S)

This is getting stupid now - time to dump SMS and switch to code-generating apps or tokens

A software developer says a thief siphoned cash from his PayPal account - after a dumbass AT&T rep handed control of his cellphone account to a hacker, thus defeating his two-factor authentication."

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