With around 1.2 billion active users every month, Gmail is one of the most popular email services on the planet. For many of those users, that Gmail account is their primary — and often only — email account. And it’s linked to dozens or even hundreds of their most important online accounts.

Facebook. Online banking. All the online stores they frequent. They’re all pointing back to a Gmail account. And yet only just 1 in 10 users is using one of Gmail’s best defenses against hackers. It’s called two-step verification, or 2SV, and it makes it very difficult for a cybercriminal to break into your Gmail account.

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