Fact checked by Stella Osoba SIM swapping gives fraudsters access to your cell phone number and any incoming messages you ...

Your phone number may be the key to your bank account as many scammers are using a new technique called SIM hacking ... [and] requesting new SIM cards. Now once they get these SIM cards?

GCHQ and the US National Security Agency hacked into the internal network of the largest makers of mobile phone SIM cards in the world in order to steal encryption keys and compromise the security ...