return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoFeds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe After ‘Worst Hack in Our Nation’s History’gizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square163fedilinkarrow-up1651arrow-down19cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
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minus-squarerandon31415@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down1·5 days agoAuthentication for my work email: Enter 28 character password, receive sms, enter message, log in Authentication for my Battle.net account: -Enter email made before 2000 because they don’t let you change email -Enter password -Get rejected -Solve CAPTCHA -Try backup passwords, get rejected -Request new password -Send request to 24 year old email -Try to log on to 24 year old email, email is suspicious and sends Authentication request to my newer email -Open newer email, Authenticate older email -open old email, Put in code to battle.net -Battle.net requests Authenticator code from Battle.net app -Open battle.net app (no requests) -Try manual code, doesn’t work Realize Battle.net app Authenticator not connected -Try to connect Battle.net app Authenticator to account -Realize you cannot connect Authenticator without signing in AND signing in requires Authenticator -Close Battle.net app -Open Blizzard Authenticator -Close warning that this app got depreciated in January -Enter manual code -it works -Attempt to change password to password I first attempted -Won’t let me use same password -Try logging in using that password -Still doesn’t work - Solve one more CAPTCHA -Change password to backup password and back to original password - have to solve 2 more Captchas -Finally works -Log in
minus-squareλλλ@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoThat just kept going. I feel you, but maybe try a password manager? You open it up, type blizzard and it tells you exactly what password you used. Even better, it can generate really good passwords for you. I use bitwarden.
minus-squareWordBox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoIt didn’t accept the password that was set.
Authentication for my work email: Enter 28 character password, receive sms, enter message, log in
Authentication for my Battle.net account:
-Enter email made before 2000 because they don’t let you change email
-Enter password
-Get rejected
-Solve CAPTCHA
-Try backup passwords, get rejected
-Request new password
-Send request to 24 year old email
-Try to log on to 24 year old email, email is suspicious and sends Authentication request to my newer email
-Open newer email, Authenticate older email
-open old email, Put in code to battle.net
-Battle.net requests Authenticator code from Battle.net app
-Open battle.net app (no requests)
-Try manual code, doesn’t work
-Try to connect Battle.net app Authenticator to account
-Realize you cannot connect Authenticator without signing in AND signing in requires Authenticator
-Close Battle.net app
-Open Blizzard Authenticator
-Close warning that this app got depreciated in January
-Enter manual code
-it works
-Attempt to change password to password I first attempted
-Won’t let me use same password
-Try logging in using that password
-Still doesn’t work - Solve one more CAPTCHA
-Change password to backup password and back to original password - have to solve 2 more Captchas
-Finally works
-Log in
That just kept going. I feel you, but maybe try a password manager? You open it up, type blizzard and it tells you exactly what password you used. Even better, it can generate really good passwords for you.
I use bitwarden.
It didn’t accept the password that was set.