Psa: X Users Have Until November 10 To Re-enroll Their Security Keys

If you’re a erstwhile Twitter personification still utilizing X and trust connected a hardware information cardinal for your two-factor authentication (2FA) method, you request to re-enroll it earlier November 10. As spotted by The Verge, X’s Safety relationship notified users of nan deadline successful a station past week. The Elon Musk-owned institution yet intends to discontinue nan twitter.com domain, which hardware keys specified arsenic YubiKeys stay tied to until they’re re-enrolled.

"By November 10, we’re asking each accounts that usage a information cardinal arsenic their 2 facet authentication (2FA) method to re-enroll their cardinal to proceed accessing X. You tin re-enroll your existing information key, aliases enroll a caller one. A reminder: if you enroll a caller information key, immoderate different information keys will extremity moving (unless besides re-enrolled)," nan relationship said.

X later clarified that nan alteration only applies to YubiKeys and passkeys, and not 2FA authenticator apps specified arsenic Microsoft Authenticator aliases Authy. Users who neglect to re-enroll their affected keys earlier November 10 will person their accounts locked until they either complete nan re-enrollment process, take a different 2FA method aliases determine to not usage 2FA altogether (which X says it advises against).

To re-enroll your hardware cardinal aliases adhd a caller one, caput to Settings successful nan X app, past click "Security and relationship access" and "Manage Passkeys" wrong nan Security section.

Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X successful 2023, and past twelvemonth afloat transitioned nan societal network's halfway systems to X.com, leaving nary trace of nan bluish vertebrate logo that was erstwhile synonymous pinch nan platform.