Twitter, one of the world’s largest social media platforms, is experiencing significant changes, especially with Elon Musk. The company continues its money-oriented work. The company, which came up with an event almost every day after the businessman took over, made an interesting decision today.
Musk: “Twitter gets scammed $60M a year with fake 2FA SMS”
Twitter rolled up its sleeves for an initiative that will create controversy in terms of security. As of 20 March, the company will be sent via SMS. two factor authentication (2FA) method only To Blue subscribers announced that it will target From this date, other users will be missing an important security measure.
shiftdelete.netOf course, this situation created a huge impact on social media. Twitter, in a statement, showed that the phone number-based 2FA application was abused by cybercriminals as the reason for taking this decision. Elon Musk, on the other hand, made an explanation to the subject from a material point of view.
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Two factor authentication Twitter subscribers can log in to their accounts after receiving messages on their phones. Thus, people’s accounts are protected by a much safer method other than passwords. Twitter now only uses this security method. Twitter Blue exclusive to its subscribers.
It seems that the company wants to protect itself with the phone number-based 2FA application limitation. However, the situation is becoming vulnerable by users. So much so that the platform does not seem to be aware that it puts many accounts in danger while trying to get in front of malicious people.