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Re:Getting 2FA Right in 2019 by rcconf on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:16AM (#20233735)
Exactly what happened to me. I accidentally left my phone in my pocket and did a load of laundry. My phone was destroyed and could not be recovered.I had iCloud backups, but that didn't do anything for Google authenticator.

Now it's been a nightmare to recover my accounts.

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Re:Getting 2FA Right in 2019 by valtism on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:30PM (#20238501)
Same here. What shocked me was how willingly companies would provide secondary ways to access your account. I feel like if I was trying to gain access to an account I didn't own and was blocked by 2FA, I would just say that I had lost my phone.
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