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The german carrier Telekom allows you to take posession (add it to your customer account as a "contract owner") of a phone number with just the PUK and a one-ti
by schroeding 5y ago
The german carrier Telekom allows you to take posession (add it to your customer account as a "contract owner") of a phone number with just the PUK and a one-time code sent to the phone number via SMS. I guess many other carriers use the same system.
You're then able to modify the contract and, for example, can get a second sim card. The affected phone number gets a "Welcome to our customer portal" message, but that's that.
I actually used this to get access to my own phone number after losing access to the connected mail account. :-D
- Ansil849 5y ago> The german carrier Telekom allows you to take posession (add it to your customer account as a "contract owner") of a phone number with just the PUK and a one-time code sent to the phone number via SMS. I guess many other carriers use the same system. Ah, very interesting. I was unaware of this usage of the PUK. If it's used for account ownership authentication, then absolutely carriers should be treating it way more securely.