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How to Stop Your X Account From Getting Hacked Like the SEC's
The US Securities and Exchange Commission and security firm Mandiant both had their X accounts breached, possibly due to changes to X's two-factor authentication settings. Here's how to fix yours.
Details are still emerging about exactly what happened in each case, but there are common threads that made the account takeovers possible—and there are ways to protect yourself. Also known as 2FA, the defense requires a rotating numeric code or physical dongle in addition to a person's login credentials, so everything isn't resting on just a username and password. It also created confusion because the company prompted free users to switch away from SMS two-factor, but then seemingly simply turned off the protection altogether for those who didn't.
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