{"id":18433,"date":"2017-07-21T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18433"},"modified":"2017-07-21T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:40:43","slug":"i-got-hacked-and-all-i-got-was-this-new-sim-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/21\/i-got-hacked-and-all-i-got-was-this-new-sim-card\/","title":{"rendered":"I Got Hacked and All I Got Was This New SIM Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carpeaqua.com\/2017\/07\/07\/hack-the-planet\/\">Justin Williams<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/carpeaqua.com\/2017\/07\/07\/hack-the-planet\/\">\n<p>I like to think I take an above average amount of steps to secure myself online: I use a password manager, unique passwords as complex as the site will allow, and turn on 2-factor authentication when possible. A true security expert will likely find some sort of flaw in my setup, but I&rsquo;ll argue that I am doing more than 95% of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>So how did I, someone who is reasonably secure, have his cell phone disabled, his PayPal account compromised, and a few hundred dollars withdrawn from his bank account?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The man on the phone reads through the notes and explains that yes, someone has been dialing the AT&amp;T call center all day trying to get into my phone but was repeatedly rejected because they didn&rsquo;t know my passcode, until someone broke protocol and didn&rsquo;t require the passcode.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>You&rsquo;re likely wondering how my cell phone being compromised leads to my PayPal account being compromised? All you need to reset a PayPal password is an email address and a phone number to accept the verification code. Since PayPal only supports SMS-based authentication, all the perpetrator needed was to be able to receive SMS messages as &ldquo;me&rdquo; and he was in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Williams: I like to think I take an above average amount of steps to secure myself online: I use a password manager, unique passwords as complex as the site will allow, and turn on 2-factor authentication when possible. A true security expert will likely find some sort of flaw in my setup, but I&rsquo;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1394,31,85,981,170,48,1393],"class_list":["post-18433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-att","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-passwords","tag-paypal","tag-security","tag-short-message-service-sms"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18434,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433\/revisions\/18434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}