Back on July 12th in California, a college student was arrested for being a participant in a group of crooks that allegedly hacked numerous cell phone numbers and stole over $5 million in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

With the assistance of his unnamed collaborators, 20-year-old Joel from Boston, MS hacked around 40 victims.

This was actually the very first case ever reported from individuals using SIM hijacking or SIM swapping, a technique that has been gaining popularity, to allege