sim swapping: US SEC blames 'SIM swapping' for its X account

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a Wall Street regulator, revealed that its social media account on the platform X was hacked using the SIM swapping technique. The SEC had removed multi-factor authentication (MFA) six months prior to the attack and reinstated it only after the incident.

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