Couldn't find the blog post I read way back when it happened. The closest thing I could find was an Android news site describing the problem. [1] I'm 90% sure

Couldn't find the blog post I read way back when it happened. The closest thing I could find was an Android news site describing the problem. [1] I'm 90% sure that a Google engineer admitted it on their official blog, but that was 2 years ago so I might be misremembering it. [1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/03/22/psa-googles-authenticator-updated-to-v2-except-its-a-brand-new-app-and-you-need-to-install-it-to-get-future-updates-old-one-is-dead/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/03/22/psa-googles-authenti...