This is a horrifying and incredibly detailed piece by @lorenzofb about a growing subculture of hackers who impersonate their victims, steal their phone numbers, then steal their Instagram photos and sell them for Bitcoinhttps://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqax3/hackers-sim-swapping-steal-phone-numbers-instagram-bitcoin …
Now that's worrying
... So much for online security, just shows hackers are clever AF, these Telecom companies need to
the game, quickly
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The US lags behind in security. SSN, name, address, phone number; they're not passwords. They're not secrets. Where's the audit trail of actions (and by whom) on sim swapping? Where's the proper authorization for the sim swap? How can outsiders access their internal tools?
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Good question
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, since the late 1980's...
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