Justin Chan of Carlsbad, California, says a hacker drained $38,000 from his bank account after his phone number was ...

“So what these hackers are doing is calling your cell phone providers over and over again, [and] requesting new SIM cards. Now once they get these SIM cards? Crypto, gone. Bank account, draine ...

Tucked into that story was a phrase I hadn't heard before, a type of hack I'd had to look up: SIM swapping. In a SIM swap, the hacker doesn't need to physically steal your SIM card — the thing ...

But a bit of hacking allowed him to add a SIM card slot to it. Even though he’s not the one who originally found this hack (XDA thread here), his write-up is definitely an interesting read.

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According to court documents, Eric Council Jr went under the aliases Ronin, Easymunny, and AGiantSchnauzer online, and searched "SECGOV hack" and "Telegram sim swap". He is also alleged to have ...

For his role in the successful SIM swap, Council was paid in BTC. Maybe Council regretted the attack because after he performed online searches for terms such as "SECGOV hack," "how can I know if ...