PayPal and Venmo Are Letting SIM Swappers Hijack Accounts

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By BeauHDApr 6, 2020, 2:55 pm122 pts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Several major apps and websites, such as Paypal and Venmo have a flaw that lets hackers easily take over users' accounts once they have taken control of the victim's phone number. Earlier this year, researchers at Princeton University found 17 major…

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