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> authenticated using a phone number which wasn't even associated with my account As in, they required you to add a phone number when you didn't have one befor
by jefftk 4y ago
> authenticated using a phone number which wasn't even associated with my account
As in, they required you to add a phone number when you didn't have one before, or they said "verify you can receive SMS at 555-123-5678" which wasn't even yours?
- thrown1212 4y agoI’ve hit this (add a new number to verify) more than once. The security theatre of it all is painful.
- sneak 4y agoThis happened to me yesterday on a brand new paid G Suite/Workspace user-level account, when logging in for the first time from a VPN.
- shortcake27 4y agoYeah they forced me to provide a number during login. I don’t have any numbers associated with my account to protect against sim swapping, and I shouldn’t need a number because I have multiple methods of MFA plus recovery email. But if Google wants your phone number, Google gets your phone number. The number I provided doesn’t appear anywhere in my account but I bet it’s stored somewhere behind the scenes, so they can compare it against previous logins. I do wonder, if I got a new phone number, would it let me in or lock me out?