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		datr on June 9, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been h... There have been quite a few cases where malicious actors have been able to convince phone companies to forward sms messages to other numbers via social engineering to defeat this type of 2FA.

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