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"Following a major data breach\u00A0which caused Evernote to\u00A0reset all of its near-50 million users\u2019 passwords, the company has revealed to Information Week that it had already planned to &amp;quot;roll out optional two-factor authentication to all of our users later this year,&amp;quot; but now those plans are apparently being accelerated.\r\n\r\nThree days ago,\u00A0Evernote revealed\u00A0that some of its user's data had been accessed \u2013 including usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords.\u00A0The company has since\u00A0won praise\u00A0for its handling of the issue, being transparent with its details and wholly careful by\u00A0enacting a full\u00A0password reset. Evernote has also been criticized for using\u00A0the MD5 cryptographic algorithm to hash passwords, which according to Information Week\u00A0is apparently\u00A0easy to crack.\r\n\r\nWhile Evernote has yet to detail how its two-factor\u00A0authentication will work, it will involve an\u00A0extra step aside from typing in your password, like having to enter a random pin sent as a text message to your phone.\r\n\r\nApple,\u00A0Microsoft,\u00A0Facebook,\u00A0Zendesk\u00A0and\u00A0Twitter\u00A0have all been hit by hacks lately, although there is no suggestion at this point that the events at Evernote \u2014 or any of the others \u2014 are directly connected.\r\n\r\nImage credit: Emma Weber"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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