Microsoft Authenticator is about to wipe work accounts from jailbroken/rooted phones automatically 👏.
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Ehm, the azure codes are a bit different than the TOTP ones. Their app also has a kinda proprietary auth code format too. I think it is mainly about them. As for all others you literally just have to store a picture of the QR-Code you used to set them up...
Edit: But yea, it probably will end in there being a shady cracked version of the Microsoft Authenticator App that continues to work on rooted phones...
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Microsoft Authenticator is about to wipe work accounts from jailbroken/rooted phones automatically
.No IT config needed.
3-phase rollout starting Feb 2026:
️ Warn → 
Block → 
️ WipeLet your help desk and security teams know.
Well another pretty bad idea. You seem to have quite a streak with those, lately.
Time to stock up with popcorn and wait for the fallout.
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Microsoft Authenticator is about to wipe work accounts from jailbroken/rooted phones automatically
.No IT config needed.
3-phase rollout starting Feb 2026:
️ Warn → Block → ️ WipeLet your help desk and security teams know.
@merill Whoa.
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Microsoft Authenticator is about to wipe work accounts from jailbroken/rooted phones automatically
.No IT config needed.
3-phase rollout starting Feb 2026:
️ Warn → Block → ️ WipeLet your help desk and security teams know.
@merill is this a threat or promise?
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Microsoft Authenticator is about to wipe work accounts from jailbroken/rooted phones automatically
.No IT config needed.
3-phase rollout starting Feb 2026:
️ Warn → Block → ️ WipeLet your help desk and security teams know.
@merill Who is using MS Auth anyway? Not me for sure! Another reason not to have or use an MS account...
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Microsoft Authenticator is about to wipe work accounts from jailbroken/rooted phones automatically
.No IT config needed.
3-phase rollout starting Feb 2026:
️ Warn → Block → ️ WipeLet your help desk and security teams know.
Wow. So a LOT of you folks are not happy.
The good news is your org can still allow you to use passkeys and other Authenticator apps.
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@merill in other words, devices that the users control, instead of controlled by someone in the Epstein files
You can opt out any time by showing documentation that you are in the files (tangentially mentioned because they cited your work in an email does not count sorry)
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@merill in other words, devices that the users control, instead of controlled by someone in the Epstein files
@fluffykittycat @merill It's kind of a grey area. They are right that open bootloaders are a security issue but then also you can relock it on some devices.
In any case I don't think I would use the Microsoft Authentication app anyway unless I have to. -
Microsoft Authenticator is about to wipe work accounts from jailbroken/rooted phones automatically
.No IT config needed.
3-phase rollout starting Feb 2026:
️ Warn → Block → ️ WipeLet your help desk and security teams know.
Hmm, I would never in my life install any M$ crap on my /e/OS ungoogled Fairphone. It's not rooted, but I guess it's also among the undesirables...
For authentication to our goddamn work accounts on M$, I use AEGIS. Or the standard authenticator on Linux Mint. Export/Import between the two works like a charm.
And it could well be that we are moving away from microslob in the not so far future. Unthinkable not so long ago. Halleluja!
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Microsoft Authenticator is about to wipe work accounts from jailbroken/rooted phones automatically
.No IT config needed.
3-phase rollout starting Feb 2026:
️ Warn → Block → ️ WipeLet your help desk and security teams know.
@merill Thank you for sabotaging my devices.
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Microsoft Authenticator is about to wipe work accounts from jailbroken/rooted phones automatically
.No IT config needed.
3-phase rollout starting Feb 2026:
️ Warn → Block → ️ WipeLet your help desk and security teams know.
@merill I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that users that jailbreak their own private device wouldn't use MS Authenticator, and on company devices it wasn't allowed anyway.
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