M&S cyber-attack: How to protect yourself from sim-swap fraud

ronjor · May 24, 2025

by Alan Woodward and Daniel Gardham, The Conversation May 22, 2025

Our mobile phone numbers have become a de facto form of identification, but they can be hijacked for nefarious purposes. Just such an attack may have been involved in the recent very damaging cyber-attack on Marks & Spencer (M&S).
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longshots · May 24, 2025

SIM swap and phone porting scams have been around for several years.

They've been the target of crackdowns by the federal police and Australia's communications regulator, which in the last few years has introduced requirements for telcos to make them harder to carry out.

But cracks have emerged in the system designed to protect consumers from these fraudulent operations and one support group says it's seeing more and more devastated victims come forward.
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