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Vitalik Buterin: The Twitter hack was due to a SIM card attack, where hackers took over the phone number through social engineering and changed the password

2023-09-12 09:37:43

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ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has confirmed that his previous X platform (formerly Twitter) account was hacked due to a SIM card attack, where someone took over his phone number through social engineering and reset the Twitter account password.

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