February 20, 2023

Twitter tells users: Pay up if you want to keep using insecure 2FA

Ironically, Twitter Blue users will be allowed to keep using the very 2FA process that's not considered secure enough for everyone else.

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December 06, 2022

SIM swapper sent to prison for 2FA cryptocurrency heist of over $20m

Guilty party got 18 months, also has to pay back $20m he probably hasn't got, which could land him in more hot water.

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March 17, 2020

Europol busts up two SIM-swapping hacking rings

What a nightmare: your phone goes dead, and you can't log into your bank account because it's controlled by a hacker who's draining you dry.

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February 21, 2020

Data of 10.6m MGM hotel guests posted for sale on Dark Web forum

The data dump apparently included PII for Justin Bieber and Jack Dorsey.

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January 17, 2020

Google will now accept your iPhone as an authentication key

Google has updated its Smart Lock to let iOS users security-dongle-ize their iPhones.

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October 16, 2019

Food writer Jack Monroe loses at least £5,000 in SIM-swap fraud

Her accounts were drained in spite of using 2FA, showing that SIM swaps can still circumvent what's a good security tool.

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September 06, 2019

Database exposed 133 million US Facebook users’ phone numbers

Facebook confirmed the breach, claiming that the total number of users in the database was 210 million.

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November 26, 2018

The phone went dark, then $1m was sucked out in SIM-swap crypto-heist

A Silicon Valley exec lost $1m in cryptocoin savings when a 21-year-old allegedly SIM-swapped his phone.

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November 12, 2018

Terrorists told to hijack social media accounts to spread propaganda

Facebook has removed 14 million pieces of content dubbed likely to come from terrorists, as determined by new machine learning technology

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