Your mobile phone number is more important and less secure than the Twitter password

(Arabic News – Your way to know the truth) The mobile number has become a basic authentication tool right now, you can So simply recover a pbadword If you forget your bank account by entering the numbers that the bank sends you on your mobile number, the bank knows that you are the account holder, but at the same time it is very easy for intruders to enter their digital life. There is almost no security to protect your mobile phone number from

Hackers can perform an attack by SIM card swap – called Mobile Slip Swap – for n & # 39; any mobile phone number easily and at low cost using the information and tools available. Once they have the phone number, they can reset the pbadword of the email and prevent the user from accessing it, grabbing banking services online and other accounts and cause the loss of every aspect of their digital life. The data acquired is days or weeks, and the user may never recover some, such as encrypted digital currency.

A breakthrough in the Timehop ​​database is the biggest example: the owner of the Timehop ​​application revealed a breakthrough in the database of users of the application that leaked personal data to 21 million users, including usernames and e-mail addresses. Users affected by this penetration, or 4.7 million users, had their own phone numbers.

Timehop's managers realized that the most vulnerable records did not represent e-mail addresses, names or even birthdays, their biggest concern being the stolen customers' phone numbers of 4.9 millions of dollars. It's very scary, and after the penetration of AT & T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, they asked for a list of hacked numbers to watch for to avoid fraud.

The mobile number is more important than the national figure for Internet-related services with regard to the identification of users, but US service companies mobile like AT & T and T-Mobile Verizon is a sales organization, not a security institution, where these companies sell products and services, and try to alert customers to security, which can be largely missing.

The number of large companies does not seem totally concerned or does not quite understand what the victims might have. The bank can not tell if the pbadword recovery message that it sent to confirm the # 39; s identity of the user went to someone else. For the bank

Mobile service providers are also at risk: a large number of junior employees can make substantial changes to people's accounts. Making Changes to Accounts Receivable

The risk badociated with a mobile phone number is quite ambiguous because its consequences are heavy but the likelihood that it will occur remains relatively low: most people will not accept it. to pressure mobile service providers and force them to protect their phone numbers. SIM card swap attacks are limited to talk about technical zones.

Mobile service providers have many tools to help them, such as a binary authentication to prove that the customer has a phone number. Companies must also reduce the ability of new employees to manage customer accounts , better control and ask for additional evidence. Before changes are made, mobile phone numbers are becoming increasingly important today.