16 March 2021, 11:08 am EDT By A newly discovered cybersecurity threat came to light after a reporter revealed telecom companies can reroute a person's text messages to a hacker for a measly amount of $16. To demonstrate the flaw, Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox shared how a hacker successfully carried out an attack targeting his phone number. (Photo : Stock Snap from Pixabay) Using an SMS redirection service by a company called Sakari, the hacker did not only manage to break into Cox's text messages without consent, but he was also able to receive and reply to the reporter's text messages without his knowledge. Cox, later on, contacted other companies that offer SMS redirection services and was told that they had seen this sort of attack before.