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A similarly-compromised front-line T-Mobile employee once enabled a "SIM-swap" on my active iPhone phone number. It was reported in T-Mobile's systems as my pe
by gojomo 3y ago
A similarly-compromised front-line T-Mobile employee once enabled a "SIM-swap" on my active iPhone phone number.
It was reported in T-Mobile's systems as my personal visit, with supporting documentation/ID, to one of their retail locations in Oklahoma – thousands of miles from anywhere I'd recently been. So, while remotely possible that their employee gullibily-reviewed credible false documents, it seemed far more likely to be:…
- an insider abuse by a corrupt employee;
- a deep hack of T-Mobile's systems, allowing such admin actions with forged audit-trails; or…
- compromise of an authorized employee's credentials plus access to capable internal-system front-ends.
The Apple Support person I spoke to insisted that an analogous compromise here was impossible - that no Apple employee had the power take such an action without my Apple ID password. Based on other reports in this thread, I highly suspect she was
lying to me, probably in conformance with Apple policy.
- meindnoch 3y agoThey were 100% lying. It's even on Apple's website: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201441 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201441 "If you need help removing Activation Lock and have proof of purchase documentation, you can start an Activation Lock support request."