Google's Two-Step Verification Reduces Account Hacks by 50%

February 11, 2022 10:27

Google's decision to enable two-step verification (2FA) by default for users appears to have paid off in protecting its service's customer accounts.

Google said that account breaches dropped by 50% for users who automatically enabled 2FA. Google said the drop is evidence that the second factor of verification adds an effective level of protection to user data, although the company did not disclose the exact number of accounts that were breached.

Ảnh minh họa.

Google also revealed that the company will continue to deploy 2FA faster to users in 2022. To date, more than 150 million people have been automatically registered for 2FA, including more than 2 million YouTube creators.

Google is also promising more security updates for Safer Internet Day. Starting in March, the company will let users opt in to an account-level Safe Browsing option that will keep them from visiting known harmful sites. Google will also expand Guest Mode for privacy-conscious Assistant users to nine new languages ​​in the coming months, and it has promised to beef up protections for politicians ahead of the US midterm elections.

The drop in account breaches isn't too surprising for accounts with 2FA enabled, as the feature requires more effort to crack accounts and keep bad actors out.

According to VOV

(0) Comments
Highlights
    Latest News
    Google's Two-Step Verification Reduces Account Hacks by 50%