Hackers are changing their game plan. By using a person’s phone number they can now gain access and steal money from someone’s bank account to bitcoin. In a report from Forbes, which highlights the story of Colombian Jered Kenna, hackers were able to move his mobile phone number, after faking his identity, transferring it from T-Mobile to a carrier known as Bandwidth, which was linked to the hacker’s Google voice account. The hackers then subsequently proceeded to reset Kenna’s email passwords before locking him out of 30 other accounts, which included two banks, PayPal, two bitcoin services, and his Windows account. Read more: cryptocoinsnews.com
