Ethereum (ETH) founder Vitalik Buterin, whose social media account was recently seized, made statements after getting his account back.
Vitalik Buterin spoke about what happened after he got his X (formerly Twitter) account back. Buterin’s X account September 10 The fraudulent link was hacked on the day and shared as a result. 700 thousand dollars of damage It had led.
Buterin Warpcast In his statement via his application, he said that the incident was a sim card attack He emphasized that the attack occurred through the infrastructure of the phone operator he used and that this result was caused by an attack.
In the details of the statement, the attackers were German GSM operator T-mobile He stated that he took over account
As a result of the attack, phone numbers are unsafe and through phone numbers two-factor secure code (2FA) While stating that making the decision was a wrong decision, he included the following striking details:
I finally got my T-mobile account back (yes, it was a sim swap, so someone social engineered T-mobile into hijacking my phone number). The main thing I learned about Twitter was that a phone number is enough to reset the password of a Twitter account, even if it is not used as 2FA. It can completely remove the phone from Twitter. “TPhone numbers are insecure, do not authenticate with them” I’ve seen the advice before but didn’t realize it. I don’t remember when I added the number; My guess is it was required to sign up for Twitter Blue.