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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1642 days ago
If there's a leak of valid usernames or email addresses, for a system that has a few million users, that has a lockout after 10 wrong guesses, then you could gain access to one account for every 10,000 lockouts.
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> leak of valid usernames or email addresses

...and passwords, because OTP is the second factor.