In this case, however, the perpetrator didn’t try to port Rosenzweig’s phone number: Instead, the attacker called multiple T-Mobile retail stores within an hour’s drive of Rosenzweig’s home address until he succeeded in convincing a store employee to conduct what’s known as a SIM swap.

~ Brian Krebs from, T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account

Free swapping of SIMs is a feature making it easy to change phones [which might require different SIM card sizes] and to recover from entirely losing your device.

Age-old axiom: If you can imagine a situation where you would prefer to not use the feature, then someone can imagine a way to abuse that feature as a security vulnerability.

…and just a few days ago I was talking about not using your cell phone as a “second form of authentication.” :/

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