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Yes this is why I use my google voice number for everything that requires a number and my security key for 2FA, it makes you invulnerable to this attack

Yes unfortunately this method "Sim Swapping" is not getting very much limelight, it is an extremely powerful tool that has been used to hack many celebrities and steal millions of dollars from Crypto Currency investors.

Yesterday, on Friday August 30th, the CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey's own twitter account (@jack) was compromised. The hackers used a method called "Sim Swapping" which entails calling one's carrier and socially engineering them into switching the targets phone number to their sim card. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/technology/jack-dorsey-twitter-account-hacked.html https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49532244