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Old 08-25-2017, 06:27 AM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by lezinterracial View Post
I remember hearing a story about this a while back. But this needs to be repeated.

Guy was talking about bitcoin on twitter. Bad guy got his phone number and was able to switch his phone to that number. Did a password recovery and the bad guy got the guy's bitcoin and ether. The guy that got ripped was watching his account get drained and trying to call support. Which was closed.
If I recall correctly the account was also set up to use SMS for two factor authorisation, so by porting the victim's number to a new phone+SIM it was possible to set a new password and log in using 2FA...

Don't use SMS for 2FA!
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