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by sharmi 3395 days ago
They have been providing two-factor authentication for websites either as a plugin to existing frameworks like WordPress or through API.

The users will have to drop everything and scramble to get a stable working login within the next 3 month, not counting the accounts migration that needs to happen. Poor ppl.

Seems to be a successful product with plenty of happy paying customers and no real competitor. Looks like killing a golden egg laying goose. Why would it be shut down so abruptly? The customers at least deserve a reason.
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eamann 3394 days ago
There are a couple of competitors out there. Tozny (https://tozny.com/secure-login/) and LaunchKey (https://launchkey.com/) both offer similar solutions. Both also offer APIs for integration with other products and ship WordPress plugins (for anyone who needs that particular integration).

So there are options out there, and 3 months is plenty of time to migrate accounts that need to migrate (I'm sure either of these, and any other companies offering alternatives, would be happy to help anyone making a change).

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voycey 3394 days ago
I assume they have been either been bought out to remove them from competition or they are closing it down to merge it into something else - either way it sucks all round but I guess that's business!

I'd hate to be the people scrambling to get the 2FA changed

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