This is what the screen will look like in your settings to turn on the new features: That is to say, if you are an Evernote user and don’t want to take the extra step to prove who you are every time you need to log in, you do not need to. Like other two-step user authentication systems rolled out by Twitter just last week, Evernote’s service will be SMS-based, and it will be optional for all users. The move to add more security and access controls comes after a breach that was bad enough to force Evernote to require password changes from its 50 million users (now numbering over 60 million), but not, according to CEO Phil Libin, serious enough that users’ data and payment details were accessed.Įvernote’s two-step verification - the most important of these three new services getting introduced today - had been in the works already, but plans to roll it out got accelerated after the February incident: today is the fruition of that attempt. Unlike the gradual roll out of two-factor authentication, access history and authorized app lists are getting turned on for everyone from today. “With feedback from our Premium users, we’ll be best prepared to address questions and concerns as we continue the roll out to our larger user base.” “Evernote Premium users are the most engaged so it made sense to start there,” she says.

Two-step authentication will eventually get rolled out to all users, but a spokesperson tells TC that at first it will be only be rolled out to Premium (paying) users first, to make sure that the experience is right. After Evernote, the personal note-taking app with 60 million+ users, got slammed with a security breach in February 2013, today the company is turning on three new features to give users better control over their accounts: two-step verification, access history and authorized applications listings.

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