04 May 2021, 01:05 am
(Photo : Adrianno Calvo/Pexel) Your old phone number may be exposed to privacy, security risks, and, at worst, hacking after mobile carriers recycle it, research reveals.
Your old phone number may be exposed to privacy and, security risks, and worst, hacking after mobile carriers recycle it, research reveals.
Mobile carriers recycle phone numbers to avoid the expected exhaustion of the latter in the future. It is wherein all the possible combinations of digits is taken.
According to the Wall Street Journal, almost 37 million phone numbers get recycled every year. A whopping amount, therefore, is exposed to vulnerability.
Phone Number Potential Exploitation