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Delete LDS Account
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russellhltn
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Re: Delete LDS Account
Have you searched the Help Center? Try doing a Google search and adding "site:churchofjesuschrist.org/help" to the search criteria.
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So we can better help you, please edit your Profile to include your general location.
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KFerguson
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Re: Delete LDS Account
Dear brother
In my opinion the Church account is very safe. It now has the option to set up a second line of defence. Each time I log into family search a code is sent to my phone. Without that code you cannot complete log in. It does give me a option to bypass this code being sent for a 30 day period but that option I have to select. If I do not choose to use 30 day option the code sent every time I log in. Without my phone and the code nobody can log into my account. If they had my phone then they probably could. For a person trying to log in using my user name and password they would also need my phone to complete the log in.
No technology is completely secure if you know what you are doing but Family Search and Church account are fairly secure. By hacking a Church account the will not get much info anyway. Not really worth the effort to hack.
In my opinion the Church account is very safe. It now has the option to set up a second line of defence. Each time I log into family search a code is sent to my phone. Without that code you cannot complete log in. It does give me a option to bypass this code being sent for a 30 day period but that option I have to select. If I do not choose to use 30 day option the code sent every time I log in. Without my phone and the code nobody can log into my account. If they had my phone then they probably could. For a person trying to log in using my user name and password they would also need my phone to complete the log in.
No technology is completely secure if you know what you are doing but Family Search and Church account are fairly secure. By hacking a Church account the will not get much info anyway. Not really worth the effort to hack.
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rmrichesjr
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Re: Delete LDS Account
Thanks for the good summary of the benefits of 2FA/MFA relative to Church Accounts. From my personal opinion/experience, here are a couple of other thoughts:KFerguson wrote: Sat Aug 05, 2023 10:26 pm Dear brother
In my opinion the Church account is very safe. It now has the option to set up a second line of defence. Each time I log into family search a code is sent to my phone.
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By hacking a Church account the will not get much info anyway. Not really worth the effort to hack.
1. In (hopefully) rare instances, breaking into a Church Account could be valuable in giving access to donation history, from which the member's history and pattern of income could be inferred.
2. While sending a verification code to a cell phone can increase security most of the time, in cases where the bad guys REALLY want access, they can call the phone provider, impersonate the owner of the phone, and switch the phone service to a new physical phone. Not many years ago, I read of a case where a person knew he was under attack. Despite his request to the phone provider to NOT transfer his service, they transferred it to the attackers' physical phone. Reportedly, the victim saw his phone display suddenly change to show no service. Then, in a small number of minutes, he saw his account balances at multiple financial institutions abruptly go to zero. (I was not able to find a reference to that article in my bookmarks stash.)