I Survived A Sim Hijack

Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

About 2 months ago, I was leaving a restaurant in LA after dinner when I noticed that my cell phone had no signal, so I restarted the phone (which normally fixed it) and was greeted with the following text message.

I immediately knew someone was either in the process of breaking or have already broken into one of my accounts, so I quickly sprinted across the parking lot, jumped in my jeep, dialed T-Mobile, and slammed on the gas. Somehow, I already had cell service back on my phone. In a panicked call as I was careening down the 405, there was some confusion between a pin and a password with the support rep and they kept asking for my password. It wasn’t until later that I find out they should have asked for my pin, I was never going to give someone my password and you shouldn’t either. T-Mobile accounts also have a PIN which is the number you give them as a private key. This was the first time I ever needed support and wasn’t familiar and the support rep wasn’t explaining so the call ended with them just recommending I visit a store in person the next day, because it was 9:30pm. Thanks for nothing.

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I Survived A Sim Hijack