T-Mobile was ordered to pay $33 million in damages after losing an arbitration case tied to a SIM swapping scam.

T-Mobile has paid $33 million in fines after a customer lost millions in cryptocurrency in a SIM swapping attack. The Los ...

T-Mobile paid $33 million in a private arbitration process over a SIM swap attack leading to cryptocurrency theft.

The company has over 450 mobile network operators as customers, which means billions of mobile device users might currently use one such SIM card. An earlier report revealed that the Gemalto hack ...

The hack, which is less a hack and more social engineering, is basically a form of identity theft, with the attacker swapping a victim's sim card remotely, usually with the help of your cell phone ...

[Jason Gin] wanted to reuse the SIM card that came with a ZTE WF721 wireless terminal he got from AT&T, but as he expected, it was locked to the device. Unfortunately, the terminal has no function ...

[Nils Pipenbrinck] has been working on a very interesting problem. The SIM card in your cellphone talks to the contactless near-field communication (NFC) chip through a cool protocol that we’d ...

phishing and exchange hacks. When a hacker takes over a victim's phone number by deceiving or buying off a mobile carrier ...

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 ...