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Phone number theft through SIM-jacking is on the rise in the UK

3 January 2020

There have been more than 300 cases since April 2019 of attackers trying to gain control of UK mobile phone numbers by obtaining porting authorisation codes (PACs)

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Phone number theft through SIM-jacking is on the rise in the UK

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