If you use Authy, update your app immediately. Twilio, the messaging company that owns the two-factor authentication service, confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday that hackers breached Twilio and acquired mobile phone numbers for 33 million users.
Twilio published a statement on its website also confirming the hack. “Twilio has detected that threat actors were able to identify data associated with Authy accounts, including phone numbers, due to an unauthenticated endpoint,” the statement reads. “We have taken action to secure this endpoint and no longer allow unauthenticated requests.”
The company added that there was no evidence that the hackers accessed Twilio’s systems or sensitive data. But updating to the latest version of the iOS and Android apps (on any devices you’re running) is critical as they include new security updates.
Twilio stressed that Authy accounts weren’t compromised. However, the hackers (and anyone they share the data with) could “try to u
