Epic Games has made two-factor authentication a mandatory requirement for anyone looking to pick up a free game on the Epic Games Store in the next few weeks.
The feature was implemented on April 28, to encourage gamers to adopt better security practices on their accounts with the online store.
The news makes Epic the second major gaming company to emphasize the need for two-factor authentication in recent days. Nintendo strongly urged its customers to deploy two-factor authentication after a series of fraudulent attacks in which hackers gained access to Nintendo accounts (and the PayPal accounts that were linked to them). Many of the victims of those attacks were using unique passwords, which suggests that the passwords were insufficient when used as the sole security factor for an account.
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