![]() ![]() This method, which relies on social engineering tactics to find out personal information that carriers use to authenticate customer accounts, differs from the highly technical meethod of sim(phone) hacking, but the end result is the same – to gain control over someone’s phone service. Then there’s also the emerging threats of SIM hijackers, where hackers who have access to stolen phone numbers call up carriers and impersonate account holders to get a new SIM the hacker controls. These identifying numbers are then used to reprogram phones or SIM cards with the stolen phone number. In cloning a phone’s cellular identity, a criminal would steal the IMEI number (the unique identifier for every mobile device) from the SIM cards, or the ESN or MEID serial numbers. It’s worth distinguishing between “cloning” a phone’s data which spy apps semi-legally offer as a way to spy on the photos, texts and calls of another device and totally illegal phone cloning, which refers to the copying of a phone’s complete cellular identity and using it in another device. ![]()
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