Twitter users can finally delete their mobile phone number from their account while still being able to use 2FA to additionally secure it.
The move comes after too many instances of SIM swapping attackers hijacking users’ accounts and almost three months after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey became a victim of such an attack himself.
Twitter 2FA
Twitter first offered users the option to enable two-factor authentication on their account in May 2013.
At the time, users had to associate a mobile phone number with the account and could only receive the second authentication factor via SMS.
Since then, Twitter added the option of 2FA via an OTP mobile authenticator app or a hardware security key, but to use any of the two, users had to first enable SMS-based 2FA. Th ..
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