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Re: Can a hacker access accounts with 2FA GAuth?
by
abercrombie
on 21/02/2015, 22:55:23 UTC
Can someone explain to me, how a hacker would attain an account on a website that is protected by 2FA with Google Authentication?

My havelock investments account was hacked.  I have 2FA authentication enabled, and yet, it was nothing to them.  How is this possible?

Also, my computer is virus free.  I don't download suspicious files and I definitely don't run them.  I would consider myself technologicaly savvy, especially enough not to be infected with something malicious.
Of course, after this happened, I scanned my whole computer with MBAM, ADwCleaner, and Avast.  They found nothing, nothing at all.

Did you do a backup of the initial QRC code?  I always do a backup then PGP encrypt that backup image.  I suppose, if that image was not encrypted then it could've been recovered somehow.

More likely, sounds like an inside job as suggested previously.