Kurt 'CyberGuy' Knutsson helps you discover whether your phone might have been hijacked by scammers and hackers by using your phone's SIM card. Here's what to know.
Unfortunately, the answer is yes, as evidenced by this sad story shared with us by the reader, Carol B.:
It stores your mobile subscriber number, which helps authenticate and identify you on mobile devices. As a result, if someone isAccess Two-Factor identification codes, potentially allowing them into your banking accounts and other high-profile accountsUse your identity to text and call others for fraudulent schemes.1. SIM swapping
While we have now established that your SIM card can be hacked, and is very dangerous should it potentially happen, it is far less common than hackers accessing your devices. This is primarily because it is much less easy for criminal hackers to access your SIM card and go unnoticed. For that matter, hackers can do many things they could do by hijacking your SIM card, such as using your identity to make calls and texts. uses physical SIM cards in any of their newly launched products.
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