Can we talk about the huge drop in sketchy login attempts after I turned on 2FA?

I run a small ecommerce site for my pottery stuff, nothing huge maybe 50 orders a month. Last year I kept getting these weird login alerts from random IPs in Russia and Brazil like 5 or 6 a week. Finally set up two factor authentication through Google Authenticator like 2 months ago. Since then I've had zero unauthorized login attempts. Crazy how such a simple thing just killed it dead. Anyone else see a similar drop after flipping that switch?

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bettymurphy5d ago

Oh yeah that tracks with what I read in some security newsletter. 2FA basically makes your account not worth the effort for most of those automated bots. They just move on to easier targets.

river_bailey25d ago

Betting your security on bots being lazy.