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Saw a video of a youtuber that got his account overtaken (I’ll post a link to it in a bit) which has 2fa enabled (not sure which method). He says he didn’t get phished, downloaded anything and his session cookies weren’t stolen and I believe him. The only clue is that he received a sms otp from google but was invalid when he inputted it which let’s me to believe he relied on SMS for 2fa in the first place. My theory is he reused passwords and his number was overtaken but I’m not sure if that’s the case since he did receive the google otp so that leaves out the common phone rep social engineering methods of porting out and fowarding. What else could it be? My paranoia is kinda acting up

Tldr: A YouTuber’s account was hacked despite having 2FA. While unsure of the exact method, potential factors include relying on SMS OTP and the possibility of password reuse.

  • Extras@lemmy.todayOP
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    10 months ago

    Damn I assumed google customer reps couldn’t do that without verifying. How do you even protect from that? Besides not using one account for everything

    Edit: I assumed porting out scam too but what confuses me about it was that his carrier line was still actively recieveing SMS and my understanding is that after a port out, the old sim becomes invalid/not working.

    • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      Sure, customer reps shouldn’t help with account recovery unless they get proper verification. I’m sure many companies have learned from past mistakes. I think that’s the only way to solve it. I’m not sure though if this is what has happened here… These crypto people seem to have hacked many accounts last year.

      Maybe related video from Linus Tech Tips incident last march: https://piped.video/watch?v=yGXaAWbzl5A

      Adam Koralik talks a bit fast and some details aren’t clear to me. For example if he got recovery mails and sms from his own actions or if this was the scammer. Also I’m not sure how 2fa works with YouTube. I certainly hope changing the account password makes it ask for the second factor or it’s next to useless. If this is the case he must have gotten phished or there is another unknown security issue in the process. Or his password didn’t get changed in the first place.