Please god lock your sim to prevent your hard earned crypto from being hacked!

I keep seeing more and more stories of people getting wiped out by hackers doing sim swaps.

Basically this is when a hacker gets your basic data and contacts your service provider saying they “lost their phone” or similar and getting your sim swapped to a new phone they have. This means they can typically access your exchanges and crypto with the combined info from the hack and the phone access.

For IOS all you have to so it go to cellular, sim pin, and slide the slider right and enter your pin. If you don’t know it just contact your service provider and they can do it for you. If you’ve already locked yourself out with attempts they can still set it up for you.

What this does (for most providers) is make your provider contact you and obtain a verbal confirmation of your pin along with a second layer of verification. It isn’t completely unhackable but is a much bigger barrier to hacking your stuff.

TLDR: don’t lose your crypto to a sim swap, turn on your sim PIN requirement, it is super easy and fast (instructions for IOS above).

Edit: Make sure you contact your providers customer service in addition to enabling the setting on your phone so that they protect your sim on the back end (they can add another layer of security when you call them) this function in settings may only protect your actual physical phone depending on the setup I’m still trying to figure out the optimal way for sim swap security, but the safest advice is to change the setting yourself in your phone AND contact your provider to have them put the sim lock setting on their side as well just to be safe.

Also thanks for all the support, love and awards this community is the best!