Twilio Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Leak 33M Authy User Phone Numbers

Re:Twilio Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Leak 33M Authy ... by iamtheworstdev on Thursday July 04, 2024 @05:54PM (#40878383)

i'm jealous of you. I recently had a day where I got 25 phone calls. 23 were spam. Turning on iOS "ignore unrecognize phone numbers" has been amazing (i assume android has the same feature)

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Re:Twilio Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Leak 33M Authy ... by graemep on Thursday July 04, 2024 @06:27PM (#40878560)

Wow. I was wondering why people were fussing about the odd spam call! The most I have had is 2 in a day and my number is in websites, social media, whatever.

Almost all spam is instantly recognisable. Mostly visa and parcel delivery scams.

In do not block unknown numbers because lots of organisations use them here (UK) This includes people I really do want to be able to contact me if they want to such as the police.

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Re:Twilio Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Leak 33M Authy ... by kalleboo on Friday July 05, 2024 @04:16AM (#40880772)

> here (UK)

I think it's mostly just an issue in the US/North America

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Re:Twilio Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Leak 33M Authy ... by katbyte on Friday July 05, 2024 @07:43AM (#40881893)

I’m in Canada and get maybe a couple scam calls a month

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Re:Twilio Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Leak 33M Authy ... by commodoreboxer on Thursday July 04, 2024 @08:56PM (#40879164)

Occasionally I'll get spam from numbers in my contacts. I got a virtual kidnapping call from my wife's number the other day, which would have been terrifying if she wasn't sitting right next to me.

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