Category: Google

If you were among the 150 million people that Google required to use two-factor authentication last year, consider yourself lucky: The chance your account was hacked dropped by half. In the last three months of 2021, Google automatically enrolled 150 million account holders, along with 2 million YouTube users, in what it calls two-step verification, or 2SV. The security process usually combines a password with a second login challenge, such as a confirmation message in a Google app or a hardware security key. The requirement proved worthwhile. Account compromises were half as likely on...