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T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Neither did the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) nor the CTIA, a trade body for the carriers.Last week, Motherboard published an investigation in which pseudonymous hacker Lucky225 paid a small sum of money to a company called Sakari to demonstrate the issue, which had not previously been reported in detail. Sakari is a firm that helps businesses with SMS marketing and mass messaging. As part of that, Sakari had gained the ability to reroute text messages from another company called Bandwidth, which in turn obtained it from another called NetNumber.Do you work for a telecom or one of the other companies mentioned? Do you know anything else about this attack? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, OTR chat on jfcox@jabber.ccc.de, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.
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