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Comment by mkfs

3 months ago

The 2FA/TOTP security theater was partly to blame for this.

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lurker_jMckQT99  3 months ago

How so? Has the author mentioned somewhere that he was tricked into providing 2FA codes / had any sort of 2FA enabled at all?

  • mkfs  3 months ago

    A spearphishing email telling them they had to update their 2FA was the vector.

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