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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has confirmed that the recent hack of his X (Twitter) account was the result of a SIM-swap attack.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the decentralized social media network Farcaster on Sept. 12, Buterin said<\/a> that he has finally recovered his T-Mobile account after the hacker managed to gain control of it via a SIM swap attack.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, it was a SIM swap, meaning that someone socially-engineered T-mobile itself to take over my phone number.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Ethereum co-founder added some lessons and learnings from his experience with X. <\/p>\n \u201cA phone number is sufficient to password reset a Twitter account even if not used as 2FA,\u201d he said be for adding that users can \u201ccompletely remove phone from Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI had seen the \u2018phone numbers are insecure, don’t authenticate with them\u2019 advice before, but did not realize this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n On Sept. 9, Buterin\u2019s X account was taken over<\/a> by scammers who posted a fake NFT giveaway prompting users to click a malicious link which resulted in victims collectively losing over $691,000.<\/p>\n