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Matthew Prince thought he had done everything right to secure his business e-mail account.
The CEO of CloudFlare, a website protection company, had used a complex and unique password as well as two-factor authentication to lock down access to his account on the company's Google-hosted e-mail service. Yet attackers found a different way to get in: The account recovery process used Prince's personal e-mail address, which--while it had a complex password--did not have other security protections. By social-engineering his mobile phone provider (AT&T) and exploiting Google's process for resetting passwords over the phone, the malicious group gained access to Prince's personal e-mail, and then leveraged that to recover the credentials for CloudFlare's e-mail system.
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