{"id":35318,"date":"2021-01-25T19:12:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35318"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:46:22","slug":"california-man-loses-about-27000-in-bitcoin-to-sim-swap-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/california-man-loses-about-27000-in-bitcoin-to-sim-swap-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"California man loses about $27,000 in bitcoin to SIM-swap attack."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers stole around $27,000 in bitcoin from a 48-year-old California resident through a SIM swap, according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/daly-city-man-scammed-out-of-27000-in-bitcoin\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">Fox KTVU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>The man said he received a message from his mobile carrier, T-Mobile, about freezing the account after failed attempts to change the password. The information was confirmed for the number provided.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>The man received a new password for the email tied to his Ledger cryptocurrency wallet. He was later called by someone allegedly from the developer company and told that the storage had been breached.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>The caller requested the password and account IDs. The California resident supplied the data, and after checking the wallet, he found that the bitcoins had disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>In November 2020, a Dublin resident was sentenced to prison <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/dublin-man-jailed-for-2m-cryptocurrency-theft\">for the theft of more than $2 million<\/a> in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, SIM-swappers stole 100,000 BCH and 1,550 BTC worth about $45 million.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers stole about $27,000 in bitcoin from a 48-year-old California resident via a SIM swap, according to Fox KTVU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Hackers stole about $27,000 in bitcoin via a SIM swap.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1688,26],"class_list":["post-35318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-sim-swapping","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Hackers stole about $27,000 in bitcoin via a SIM swap.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35320,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35318\/revisions\/35320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}