Enter it, click “Verify,” and you are finished. Soon after you click, you’ll receive a text message with your verification code. Navigate back to your 2FA settings by clicking “Privacy” in the top bar and then “Security” on the left. Enter it and continue.Īfter you’ve verified your phone number, you’ll land at your contact information settings page. If you have not yet added a phone number to your account, click “Add a phone number.” Otherwise, continue with setup at step 5.Įnter a phone number at which you can receive texts and click “Send code.” You may be prompted to enter your password first. Click “Change” on the right to expand your 2FA settings.
Select “Privacy” from the top bar, then “Security” on the left to get to your 2FA settings. With this in mind, see below for steps to enable 2FA on your LinkedIn account.Ĭlick on your picture in the top right to navigate to “Privacy & Settings.” While data breaches may compromise your password and other information eventually, it is harder for them to affect a second factor of verification that you physically have in your possession, like your mobile phone. But they were only a couple among countless data breaches and leaks. The LinkedIn hacks were notorious for their scale, and have even provided the basis for some password-related artwork. In addition to making strong passwords and changing them often, 2FA is an easy, powerful defense in the face of large-scale, password-stealing hacks. Although the passwords were not stored as plaintext (they used a hashing algorithm) in both cases, they were stored with weak enough protection that they were easily cracked. This came after a related 2012 hack, in which about 6.5 million LinkedIn users’ passwords were compromised and posted to online forums. LinkedIn recently recommended two-factor authentication to users after 117 million user passwords were compromised and put up for illegal sale online this past May.
For the eleventh and second-to-last day of the 12 Days of 2FA, we’ll look at how to enable two-factor authentication on LinkedIn.
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