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Garry Tan (YC's CEO) gets hacked with a SIM swap

4 pointsby drag0salmost 2 years ago

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rvzalmost 2 years ago
So even a high profile technical CEO is still using the embarrassingly insecure SMS verification and waits until it is too late to realize to see how insecure it is. As long as you don&#x27;t use something else, it can happen to you as well.<p>All your data has been breached including your phone number(s) and yet you still continue to use SMS 2FA as if it is safe. This option gives a false sense of security and I expected techies, like Garry to already know better. I guess that old habits die hard and for &#x27;seniors&#x27;, &#x27;top execs&#x27;, and CEOs, old habits die harder.<p>So just stop SMS 2FA right now. There are no more excuses after many data breaches later [0] especially for techies.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32401284" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32401284</a>