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shostack
on June 13, 2017
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Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking i...
What an interesting way of increasing phone number data conversion rates.
klez
on June 13, 2017
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Twitter does that too. At some point I created another account without specifying a phone number, posted a tweet from there and next thing you know they are flagging it for suspicious activity and asking for my phone number to unlock the account.
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