Joke's on them. Google locked me out of my account when I refused to give them my phone number.
this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2024
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What’s most concerning is how this “restoration” process can be done multiple times if the victim never becomes aware that they’ve been compromised. Even worse is how even after a Google Account password reset, this exploit can be used one more time by the bad actor to get access to your account.
Does this mean if you change your password twice you’re fine? Or is the second sentence just worded awkwardly?
From my superficial glance at the exploit, it abuses Google's mechanism to keep you logged in on every device you were before a password reset, so "I think" it doesn't matter how many times you change it. I haven't dived deeeper or checked what would be a real countermeasure other than logging out everywhere.
I've also marked it to check out how it might interact with passkeys and password-less logins; at first sight, it could be really bad.
I had the same question
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