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How Criminals Recruit Telecom Employees To Help Them Hijack SIM Cards (vice.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Sources who work for some of America's major cellphone carriers tell us how criminals are trying to recruit them to get help hacking victims. Normally, criminals approach them online, offering to pay them in Bitcoin (the equivalent of $100 for example). In exchange, the employee has to log into a company portal and process a so-called SIM swap. From the report: How criminals find the employees in the first place can vary. Some SIM hijackers I spoke to told me they approach them through shared friends in real life, others told me they just comb LinkedIn, Reddit or social media sites. AT&T and Sprint did not respond to requests for comment about whether or not it had any knowledge of insiders helping criminals. A T-Mobile spokesperson said in a statement that the company is "aware of these ongoing and ever-changing attempts to take advantage of consumers across the wireless industry and we'll keep fighting to ensure our customers' safety." A Verizon spokesperson said the company doesn't share details of internal security processes or investigations, but the company "has systems in place that work to detect employee/vendor misconduct."
Yeah but it's in bitcoin so it's closer to $300, no wait, now it's $25