Other accounts took weeks to recover, wrote the YouTube star, who didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. “I had been locked out of my own account though and it took hours on the phone to regain access.” “PayPal had been raided but luckily they managed to freeze the assets when they realized something was wrong,” he wrote. The hacker tricked a Verizon employee into rerouting Boogie2988’s phone number to the hacker’s phone, which allowed the hacker to take control of Boogie2988’s email, YouTube, social media, and even PayPal accounts. He isn’t the only prominent victim of such an attack: the popular YouTube host known as Boogie2988, known for his viral video rants under the name “Francis,” wrote on Medium last fall that a teenage hacker used a similar technique. They then posted a number of tweets to his account, including one endorsing Donald Trump for president.
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“It was not due to passwords, they hacked my phone account itself.”īy calling and successfully changing my phone’s SIM, the hacker bypassed two-factor verification which I have on all accounts.Ĭalling his phone company, hackers were able to impersonate McKesson, have his phone number assigned to a new SIM card under their control and use that to reset his Twitter password through text-based authentication, he wrote. “I was hacked today: my Twitter account, two email addresses, & my phone,” wrote Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson on Twitter last June. Criminals who can trick or hack phone companies into letting them access legitimate customers’ accounts can use text-message-based password reset tools to gain access to private emails, social media, and even financial accounts. “I was just overwhelmed and frustrated at the number of hours it took to deal with this.”Īnd while the fraudsters who targeted Tsamitis may have simply been looking to steal hardware, other victims of similar crimes have seen attackers also hijack other logins linked to their phone numbers. “It’s just very frustrating, and the carrier didn’t really have an appropriate response or guidance as to steps I can take,” she says.
Yet it was still easy for criminals armed with fake IDs to purchase new devices and charge them to her account, a problem that wasn’t resolved until she spent hours on the phone with her carrier and even visited one of the company’s retail stores. When it comes to digital security, Tsamitis is about far as from an amateur as could be: She’s a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, director of the school’s Information Networking Institute, and a founding director of CMU’s CyLab security and privacy institute.
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