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Old Nov 17, 2023, 12:02 pm
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DCEsquire
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Washington DC
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UA Account Hacked - Two Factor Authentication Question
I just wrestled control of my United account from some hackers in China. Pretty scary actually.

Got an email from United that my account had been updated. I couldn't log in on my laptop b/c the security questions had been changed. Managed to log into my mobile app and change the password. Saw they had changed my address to China. Fortunately reset the secuirty questions and nothing had been taken out of my account yet.

There is some mention in the site that you can enable 2 factor authentication - but I can't seem to locate how to turn this on.

I was so annoyed by Marriot's default 2 factor authentication - now I can't imagine not having 2 factor enabled. Time to update all of my passwords. Gosh.
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