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I don't think it's really accurate to describe it as not MFA. The attacker phished a password and 2 TOTP codes. So the attacker phished 3FA. So yes, Google Aut
by Thorrez 3y ago
I don't think it's really accurate to describe it as not MFA. The attacker phished a password and 2 TOTP codes. So the attacker phished 3FA.
So yes, Google Authenticator sync made the security worse, but it didn't downgrade the security from MFA to non-MFA. And even if the sync was off, the TOTP codes in Google Authenticator could have been phished as well, so Google Authenticator can't be blamed so heavily, because the attack could have been done without it.
Disclosure: I work at Google but not on Google Authenticator.