Vitalik Buterin reveals X account hack was caused by SIM-swap attack Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has confirmed that the recent hack of his X (Twitter) account was the result of a SIM-swap attack. Speaking on the decentralized social media network Farcaster on Sept. 12, Buterin said that he has finally recovered his T-Mobile account after the hacker managed to gain control of it via a SIM swap attack. “Yes, it was a SIM swap, meaning that someone socially-engineered T-mobile itself to take over my phone number.” The Ethereum co-founder added some lessons and learnings from his experience with X. “A phone number is sufficient to password reset a Twitter account even if not used as 2FA,” he said, adding that users can “completely remove [a] phone from Twitter.” “I had seen the ‘phone numbers are insecure, don’t authenticate with them’ advice before, but did not realize this.” On Sept. 9, Buterin’s X account was taken over by scammers who posted a fake NFT giveaway prompting users to click a malicious link which resulted in victims collectively losing over $691,000.
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