Interesting story. I see it started by getting their hands on the new CC, but how did they figure out the phone number and provider ?
I read this one earlier today. I'm not a social media user but as near as I could tell they got the information from instagram?
A few days earlier, my colleague Rob Price had published a terrifying story about hackers who waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation to steal Instagram handles and other coveted usernames on social media. Tucked into that story was a phrase I hadn't heard before, a type of hack I'd had to look up: SIM swapping.
I was unable to get around the firewall for Rob Prices story.
