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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1940050" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Expand on what? The esim is data stored inside the phone, not on a removable card. To clone an esim, the hacker would have to have physical access to the phone and it be unlocked and then use software to read the esim data (it's not generally available to the typical user). To clone a physical sim only requires access to the sim tray for less than a minute, to pop out the card, put it in a cloner and then return the original back to the phone. Then the thief can use the clone later, in a separate phone, to hijack the calls and messages. Generally the thief will hand off the information to an accomplice who will do the pw hacking within minutes (less than 5) of getting the cloned card.</p><p></p><p>As for the rest, if someone watched him enter the passcode to unlock the phone and then had access to it for 15 seconds, they could unlock the phone, change the codes and start stealing data. The main one to change is the AppleID, as that gives the thief access to EVERYTHING, including the keychain data.</p><p></p><p>It could also be that the thieves just worked through Verizon, pretending to be your son and claiming that they had a new phone and needed to mograte from the old to the new. They then provide the informaton on their new phone and Verizon made the change. Once they had that, they get access to your son's accounts fairly easily. Here is one article where a woman had her phone stolen and within 3 minutes all the damage was done. So, if your son was inattentive for 3 minutes, it could have happened that way to him, and he wouldn't know until he tried to access his accounts himself later.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-iphone-security-theft-passcode-data-privacya-basic-iphone-feature-helps-criminals-steal-your-digital-life-cbf14b1a?st=fascgt0vscfpl3w&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink[/URL]</p><p></p><p>I used to use a 4 digit passcode, but moved to a 6 digit a while ago. I'm now thinking of moving to alphanumeric for more security, although it's a bigger pain to then unlock when facial ID doesn't work. Fortunately, that's not often, so maybe it won't be that bad. To do that, here is Apple's article on passcodes:</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204060[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1940050, member: 396914"] Expand on what? The esim is data stored inside the phone, not on a removable card. To clone an esim, the hacker would have to have physical access to the phone and it be unlocked and then use software to read the esim data (it's not generally available to the typical user). To clone a physical sim only requires access to the sim tray for less than a minute, to pop out the card, put it in a cloner and then return the original back to the phone. Then the thief can use the clone later, in a separate phone, to hijack the calls and messages. Generally the thief will hand off the information to an accomplice who will do the pw hacking within minutes (less than 5) of getting the cloned card. As for the rest, if someone watched him enter the passcode to unlock the phone and then had access to it for 15 seconds, they could unlock the phone, change the codes and start stealing data. The main one to change is the AppleID, as that gives the thief access to EVERYTHING, including the keychain data. It could also be that the thieves just worked through Verizon, pretending to be your son and claiming that they had a new phone and needed to mograte from the old to the new. They then provide the informaton on their new phone and Verizon made the change. Once they had that, they get access to your son's accounts fairly easily. Here is one article where a woman had her phone stolen and within 3 minutes all the damage was done. So, if your son was inattentive for 3 minutes, it could have happened that way to him, and he wouldn't know until he tried to access his accounts himself later. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-iphone-security-theft-passcode-data-privacya-basic-iphone-feature-helps-criminals-steal-your-digital-life-cbf14b1a?st=fascgt0vscfpl3w&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink[/URL] I used to use a 4 digit passcode, but moved to a 6 digit a while ago. I'm now thinking of moving to alphanumeric for more security, although it's a bigger pain to then unlock when facial ID doesn't work. Fortunately, that's not often, so maybe it won't be that bad. To do that, here is Apple's article on passcodes: [URL unfurl="true"]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204060[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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