Verizon prepaid accounts hijacked by SIM swap crooks
Verizon has notified some prepaid customers that their accounts were compromised and their phone numbers potentially hijacked by crooks via SIM swaps.
"Between October 6 and October 10, 2022, a third party actor accessed the last four digits of the credit card used to make automatic payments on your account," the mobile network operator said in a letter ["Using the last four digits of that credit card, the third party was able to gain access to your Verizon account and may have processed an unauthorized SIM card change on the prepaid line that received the SMS linking to this notice," the alert continued.
Plus,"in an abundance of caution," the network operator reset customers' PINs, and strongly advised customers to set a new security code, password, and secret question and answer for account access. Also, don't reuse PINs or passwords, because this just makes things easier for criminals.
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