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Comment by willyyr | Hacker News Reader

So he is using 2FA for all the important accounts but for the most important one (the email which he used to register an account at all these services) he's using a weak pw and no 2FA? Am i missing something here? Yes they did not follow protocol but why would one not use 2FA for such an important email addy?

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I thought the same thing! Although he is definitely right to complain about Namecheap, the biggest takeaway is, your email is the most important service you have on the internet:

> I’m pretty careful to use 2FA for any service that I consider important

Correct.

I'm surprised no one else has mentioned no 2FA for the email. The email being compromised opened the door to this happening.

The email being compromised opened the door to his email being compromised. The door to his Namecheap account being compromised was apparently already wide open.

No, OP didn't have 2FA enabled on their namecheap account. It was namecheap's fault for improper handling of the social engineering attack but OP could have protected themselves by having 2FA

The article pretty clearly states 2FA was enabled for the Namecheap account in question. In fact, that is sort of the whole point of the article.

Oh this comment by CIO led me to think 2FA wasn't...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11480221

You should not be able to overcome 2FA with social engineering wtf!

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