Popular Post AnotherSpin Posted November 9, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 9, 2019 3 hours ago, Jud said: Sorry about that. For those with iPhones, it's a Wall Street Journal article available on Apple News+. It's about a method of hacking through the security of a phone known as "sim-swapping," which doesn't actually involve stealing the SIM in your phone, but rather gaining enough information to hack an email account (surprisingly easy with "lost password" procedures) and thereby stealing your identity (could be a matter of minutes). From there they get into financial accounts - the fellow in the article had $24 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen. Edit: Paul's last link appears to be about this case. Good idea to read up (Krebs has a good site) and find out how to make this more difficult. Two-factor authentication isn't necessarily great, depending on what the second factor is. "...When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose" christopher3393, Sonic77 and Jud 1 2 Link to comment
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