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by chasingthewind 2564 days ago
Does anyone know if it's safe to leave a voice-only landline phone number associated to an account? Are these as susceptible to being hijacked as cell numbers?
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Landline numbers are still vulnerable, it just isn't as common of an attack.

You can go to specific forums and pay $10-15 for a change to be made to a cellular account, usually by rouge employees or hacked point of sale terminals. A landline requires you to get some additional details like the account number, photoshop a bill, and submit that to port the number to somewhere that you control.

Interesting...thanks!