If you've ever called your carrier's customer service to activate a prepaid SIM card or troubleshoot a malfunctioning Android SIM card or iPhone SIM, then you've likely needed your ICCID number. The ...

Zoltan Szabo, head of the digital forensics and information assurance program at Richland College, demonstrated how to extract information from a SIM card in his digital forensics class. If you’re not ...

Chiara is an award-winning investigative reporter who specialises in banking and fraud, joining Which? in 2015 following six years as a personal finance journalist at a national newspaper. Reports of ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to seize more than $5 million in Bitcoin ...

Cloning of SIM or SIM swapping is a technique using which a malicious actor can create a duplicate of a SIM card in such a way that both the original and the cloned SIM, work at the same time without ...

SIM-swapping fraud occurs when criminals gain control of a victim's mobile phone number by tricking the network provider into ...

As the last few years have shown, it’s more important than ever to protect our data. If the big tech giants and data aggregation firms aren’t making us vulnerable by lax data protection policies, ...

One minute, the San Francisco man’s investment accounts added up to a million dollars; the next moment they had a zero balance. "I was devastated," he said. “It was about 90 percent of my net worth.” ...

If you’re not familiar with SIM swap fraud, prepare to be terrified. This scam, also known as port-out or SIM splitting fraud, allows criminals to hijack your cellphone number. Once they have your ...

Reports of scammers hijacking phone numbers to steal bank security codes and get into online accounts have doubled year-on-year, Which? warns. It can be staggeringly easy for a scammer to steal your ...