'Your phone essentially goes dead and the attacker ports out your number to their device and now they start receiving all of your calls, all of your text messages,' Derigiotis said.
The bad guys take control. Then they call your phone company and tell them they want to switch your information to a new phone.It’s Deja Vu for some T-Mobile customers. In August, hackers exposed 50 million customers' data.How scammers take control of your phone number"Your phone essentially goes dead and the attacker ports out your number to their device and now they start receiving all of your calls, all of your text messages," Derigiotis said.
"The other is, good old-fashioned social engineering," he said. "They called, they trick the individual pretend that they are you. And they’re asking to port out that number and they’re able to simply do that by deceiving and tricking which is social engineering, taking advantage of that human element."Here’s the real danger. Many of us have authentication for other programs on our computers tied to our phones. So, think about it.
"What everyone should do is stop using their cell phone number, stop using that text as a second form of authentication," he said. "Because we see right here, this is the real weak spot, and breaking through that, and being able to get into an online account.
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