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A comment on Ask HN: How do you start over with 2FA after losing your phone?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you start over with 2FA after losing your ... by nigamanth on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @08:39AM (#35055175)
This same thing happened to me with Discord once, I just wrote to them and filed a complaint saying my account got "hacked" and that the hacker changed the 2fa mobile number.

With adequate proof and justification I think you should be able to get back your accounts, that is if your service does allow you to get back your account. One tip is to have multiple phones for 2fa and then just not using the other phone, if you don't use it how can you lose it? (that's what I did since I lost it once).

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Re:Ask HN: How do you start over with 2FA after losing your ... by dncornholio on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @08:49AM (#35055266)
Why did you decide to lie in your complaint?
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Re:Ask HN: How do you start over with 2FA after losing your ... by TrueGeek on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:24AM (#35055644)
Yeah, this is disturbing. He's admitting he used social engineering to get back into his own locked account and he's happy that it worked. Assuming he did this over email / web the "proof" he sent them was probably a photo of driver's license which really doesn't prove ownership of identity when your account was just hacked.

We really need a third party service that allows you to walk up, have some DNA taken, verify you are who you say you are, and then unlock accounts in these cases. We can have the government do it, they have all our DNA anyway!

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Re:Ask HN: How do you start over with 2FA after losing your ... by philwelch on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @11:47AM (#35057504)
This isn’t secure against evil twins.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you start over with 2FA after losing your ... by huhneverthot on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:04PM (#35057811)
Pretty much every single one of these threads is about half full of people demanding more, larger foot-guns with which to shoot themselves because they just can't be bothered (just assure you'll hear when they're eventually locked out, etc).
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