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Google saw 50 pct decrease in account breaches in 2021 due to default two-step verification
Updated On: 10 February, 2022 04:44 PM IST | San Francisco | IANS
Last year, the company said it auto-enrolled over 150 million people in two-step verification, which lead to the decrease in breaches. Next month, users will be able to opt into Google's account-level enhanced safe browsing feature, another way to secure their online activity
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Tech giant Google said that Google account hacks dropped by half after it pushed two-step verification (2SV) by default in 2021.
Last year, the company said it auto-enrolled over 150 million people in two-step verification. As a result of this effort, the company saw a 50 per cent decrease in accounts being compromised.
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