If you need to reset your password, a code or password reset link will be sent to the recovery email or texted to the ...

Lack of standardization of the password reset procedures of web services can help hackers find the phone number linked to a victim's email address. Online services have implemented mechanisms to allow ...

Data breaches are becoming more and more common putting your identity at risk. Some of the latest companies to announce breaches include T-Mobile, Wegman's and CVS. Data breaches can put your social ...

Few things are as annoying as forgetting your login information. And fewer things are as disconcerting as suspecting your account may have been hacked. Thankfully, the steps for changing or resetting ...

When logging in to an app or service, you often have to authenticate by entering your email address or phone number and a one-time password sent via email or text message. Engineer Daniel Huang points ...

On July Fourth, hackers accessed computers at the social media aggregator Timehop. They stole 21 million user records. Timehop executives quickly realized that the most sensitive compromised records ...

You can change your Snapchat password in just a few steps, or get a code to reset it if you've forgotten it. Here's how to do both.

Your phone number was never meant to be an all-access pass to your life. There's a way to mitigate the very real risks that come with treating your phone number like both a public identifier and a key ...

On the second day of 2020, awash in the possibilities of a new year — nay, decade — my iPhone pinged with a notification that came from out of the blue. "Use this iPhone to reset your Apple ID ...