SIM cards are all around us, and with the continuing growth of the Internet of Things, spawning technologies like NB-IoT, this might as well be very literal soon. But what do we really know about t… ...

South Korea’s top mobile carrier, SK Telecom, announced April 25 that it will offer free SIM card replacements to all 23 million customers following a recent hacking incident, responding to ...

If you're an AT&T customer, you can turn on a new security feature that prevents your phone number from being moved to a ...

Since only one version of any given SIM card can be on that network, the two SIM cards would “fight” each other to connect. Most likely, SKT would figure out that this was happening before too long, ...

Your phone number may be the key to your bank account as many scammers are using a new technique called SIM hacking. In a TikTok with over 1.2 million views, creator lex.and.her.pen (@lex.and.her ...

Experts have raised the alarm about SIM swapping fraud after the number of recorded scams surged tenfold in a year. There was a 1,055 per cent increase in unauthorised phone SIM swaps in the UK in ...

Criminals don't need a physical SIM card to make the swap. In most cases, they call the mobile carrier and impersonate a victim. Here's how to protect yourself.

Unsealed court documents filed last Thursday, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California shared that AT&T wasn’t liable to any damages due to the 2017 SIM swap hack that ...

Amir Hossein Golshan, 25, was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Los Angeles District Court and ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution for crimes involving SIM swapping, merchant fraud ...

A SIM swap hack is a form of identity theft where attackers take over a victim’s phone number, allowing them to gain access to bank accounts, credit cards or crypto accounts.