[HN Gopher] Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on roote...
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       Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and
       jailbroken phones
        
       Author : azalemeth
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2026-03-11 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theregister.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
        
       | beardbound wrote:
       | Wow, they're actively removing data off the app on your phone?
       | Good reason to never use MS authenticator for anything important.
       | This is also assuming that they're never wrong about this, and
       | that it is foolproof with no false positives.
       | 
       | It seems that there's a big difference between "not supported"
       | and actively removing account/auth data from someones phone. This
       | has made me reconsider my 2fa providers. I might have to look at
       | some sort of hosted option that doesn't have this issue. I wonder
       | what the policies are for this kind of thing with authy and okta
       | (and other major 2fa auth platforms).
        
         | LordShredda wrote:
         | I made the mistake of using them, and now I can't export and
         | move my data to a different authenticator. How could I trust
         | their online backup?
        
       | crimsonnoodle58 wrote:
       | GrapheneOS user. Disappointing they consider our OS rooted when
       | its actually more secure than stock Android.
       | 
       | So if I'm locked out of my 365 sysadmin user by this, what then?
       | 
       | Hopefully disabling the hardened memory allocator, as suggested
       | by the article, holds them off for a while..
        
         | Sarkie wrote:
         | Wonder what Motorola thinks of this.
        
         | phatfish wrote:
         | Curious how severe their root detection will be. I have a cheap
         | China phone with LineageOS installed, but it's not running
         | rooted. Will be nasty if they flag all 3rd party ROMs as
         | "insecure".
         | 
         | My banks app works fine, but i have had one financial app
         | refuse to install.
        
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