Mail.Ru Group’s e-mail service to get rid of passwords

MOSCOW, Jun 25 (PRIME) -- Russian Internet company Mail.Ru Group is introducing new ways of logging in into its e-mail service through one-time codes received via an SMS or push notifications and will fully abandon passwords later, a company spokesperson told PRIME on Tuesday.

Authorization with an SMS or a push notification involves a unique code, which is formed at the moment of request and cannot be picked by accident or matched. It is valid within a certain stretch of time and works for a single authorization.

Such a method of authorization is more reliable from the point of view of security and more convenient, the spokesperson said.

Mail.Ru Group plans to allow users to register e-mail without a password or abandon it in earlier created e-mail addresses. New identification tools, including biometry, will be also included in the future.

Created in 1998, the e-mail service now has some 100 million active accounts, and users send about 380 million letters daily.

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