An Australian nurse had her life upended when scammers hijacked her phone number, drained her bank accounts and opened loans in her name — all within 24 hours. "They were able to change my email, ...

If you’ve ever bought a new cell phone and wanted to keep your same number, there’s a setting providers use that could leave yourself open to getting hacked. It’s called porting. When a hacker can ...

A Queensland nurse has had her bank accounts drained and credit rating destroyed through an unauthorised phone porting scam. Lee-Anne McLean told 9News her life was turned upside down when hackers ...

While having phone numbers that move about with their users sounds like a good idea to some, dozens of rural telephone companies in Nebraska hear a huge headache. They have asked - and in some cases ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a hacker can port out your number to a different phone, that could wreak havoc on all the important information you keep on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Worried nurse peers over bills after losing money to phone scammers. An Australian nurse had her life upended when scammers ...