Hey all. I just wanted to do a quick PSA on this relatively newish type of hack where an individual is able to convince a phone carrier to switch a given cell phone number to a different device and Sim Card. This happened to me on march 18th and they were able to swiftly walk away with money in my coinbase account less than 30 seconds before I was able to disable my account. The amount I had on the exchanged happened to just exit its trade hold otherwise it would have been in my hardware wallet. MY phone carrier was AT&T and their gross incompetence allowed this individual to obtain my phone number and two factors to get through my account. I have 3 factor on my account but they still managed to get through all of it after obtaining my phone number and resetting my password. Please if you have not already make sure to secure your accounts beyond just your phone number two factor.
Information on sim swap attacks https://about.att.com/pages/cyberaware/ni/blog/sim_swap
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