Back on July 12th in California, a college student was arrested for being a participant in a group of crooks that allegedly hacked numerous cell phone numbers and stole over $5 million in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

With the assistance of his unnamed collaborators, 20-year-old Joel from Boston, MS hacked around 40 victims.

This was actually the very first case ever reported from individuals using SIM hijacking or SIM swapping, a technique that has been gaining popularity, to allege

Mint Mobile has disclosed a data breach after an unauthorized person gained access to subscribers' account information and ported phone numbers to another carrier.

According to the data breach notification email sent to affected subscribers this weekend, between June 8th and June 10th, a threat actor ported the phone numbers for a "small" number of Mint Mobile subscribers to another carrier without uthorization.

In addition to the ported number, Mint Mobile disclosed that an unauthorized p