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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Finally got back my T-mobile account (yes, it was a sim swap, meaning that someone socially-engineered T-mobile itself to take over my phone number).
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Main learning re twitter was: > A phone number is sufficient to password reset a Twitter account even if not used as 2FA. Can completely remove phone from Twitter. I had seen the "phone numbers are insecure, don't authenticate with them" advice before, but did not realize this
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I don't remember when I *added* the number; my guess is that it was required to sign up for twitter blue.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Anyway, glad to be on farcaster, where my account recovery can be controlled by a good wholesome ethereum address :)
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aferg
@aferg.eth
Glad youโ€™re back. Sorry you got sim swapped :-( Are T-Mobile going to add some extra protection to your mobile to prevent this going forward? I am anxious that mobile companies are woefully unprepared to curtail social engineeringโ€ฆespecially if AI can simulate a speaker since many telecoms use voice for auth
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โ†‘ j4ck ๐Ÿฅถ icebreaker.xyz โ†‘
@j4ck.eth
๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘
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antimo ๐ŸŽฉ
@antimofm.eth
Welcome back
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Robin A.
@degenroot.eth
Hear hear!
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Dave Pazdan
@paz
prior to this, did you tell tmobile no port, no sim swap under any circumstances on your account?
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@mpryor.eth
๐Ÿคง that was wild
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Jackson ๐ŸŽฉ๐Ÿ–
@jacks0n
who woulda thought a seed phrase could feel so comfy and safe
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frdysk
@frdysk
+1 for ethereum and farcaster ๐Ÿธ
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Tempe Techie
@tempetechie.eth
Yet another reason to ditch web2 social ๐Ÿค˜
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Project7
@project7
Yay! That's so true :D
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@abcd
ๅ“ๅ‘ณไธ้”™
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WholesomeCrypto
@rudy
It's all about being wholesome in crypto. Glad you recovered your number and account.
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Lee
@0xcyclone
Good to have you on here, Welcome
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Mohamad
@mohamad
Thatโ€™s so cool
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@jeeg
yes
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Lukas
@lukaslevert.eth
X sucks. Long live farcaster. Also for web2 stuff in the interim, reminder for everyone else here to get some hardware security keys (Yubico). Phone 2FA is clearly too vulnerable.
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dev
@photoshop.eth
Scary stuff ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ maybe elon should integrate ENS too
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0xCuttlefish
@0xcuttlefish
So if I'm understanding correctly, your account had a mobile number associated, but it was not enabled for 2FA, and even though you weren't using SMS 2FA the hackers were still able to take over via the mobile number? Is that correct? If so I really dislike that Twitter Blue requires a mobile number to sign up.
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@thepanda
Welcome to the World of Decentralised! ๐ŸคŸ
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