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Re:Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Ema... by shostack on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:20AM (#14543154)
What an interesting way of increasing phone number data conversion rates.
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Re:Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Ema... by klez on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @05:10AM (#14543659)
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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