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The email being compromised opened the door to his email being compromised. The door to his Namecheap account being compromised was apparently already wide open
by mbrameld 11y ago
The email being compromised opened the door to his email being compromised. The door to his Namecheap account being compromised was apparently already wide open.
- levemi 11y agoNo, OP didn't have 2FA enabled on their namecheap account. It was namecheap's fault for improper handling of the social engineering attack but OP could have protected themselves by having 2FA
- cname 11y agoThe article pretty clearly states 2FA was enabled for the Namecheap account in question. In fact, that is sort of the whole point of the article.
- levemi 11y agoOh this comment by CIO led me to think 2FA wasn't... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11480221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11480221 You should not be able to overcome 2FA with social engineering wtf!