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Unchained

How to Keep Your Crypto From Being Stolen Via Your Phone - Ep.128

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Rich Sanders, cofounder and chief security officer of CipherBlade, and Harry Denley, director of security of MyCrypto.com, discuss the phone porting phenomenon: who's behind these thefts, how they perpetrate them, who is targeted, how to recognize the signs you're a victim and how to the hackers are adapting to people protecting themselves. They cover how you can protect yourself, which accounts to protect, what kinds of email addresses and numbers to set up, how to set them up, how to separate them from anything valuable, and which two-factor authentication methods could work instead. Plus, they go over how to report a theft, to whom you should report, and what information to include. Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com: https://crypto.com Kraken: https://kraken.com CipherTrace: https://ciphertrace.com/unchained Episode links:  MyCrypto: https://mycrypto.com/ https://twitter.com/MyCrypto https://medium.com/mycrypto CipherBlade: https://cipherblade.com The SIM Swapping Bible: https://medium.com/mycrypto/what-to-do-when-sim-swapping-happens-to-you-1367f296ef4d My Forbes story covering the phone hijacking phenomenon: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/12/20/hackers-have-stolen-millions-of-dollars-in-bitcoin-using-only-phone-numbers/#1964ddb738ba Michael Terpin, awarded $75 million in case after losing $24 million in crypto: https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-investor-awarded-over-75-million-in-sim-swapping-hack-case Cody Brown who lost $8,000 on Coinbase due to a phone hijacking: https://medium.com/@CodyBrown/how-to-lose-8k-worth-of-bitcoin-in-15-minutes-with-verizon-and-coinbase-com-ba75fb8d0bac BitGo engineer losing his money via SIM porting: https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-most-expensive-lesson-of-my-life-details-of-sim-port-hack-35de11517124 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey everyone, just a quick announcement before we begin today's episode.

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We got lots of great and helpful responses and many of you said really nice things about

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the show.

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So thank you for that.

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I just want to take a moment to dispel a few myths that I saw.

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Several people suggested that I cover the news in some way

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and many people were unaware that I have another podcast

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unconfirmed. Well guess what? Unconfirmed is a shorter 20 minute

0:28.1

podcast where I tend to dive into that week's news. It comes out every Friday

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and it's on all the same platforms that Unchained is, so you can

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find it wherever you listen to this show. Some others were unaware that we do put the

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podcast on YouTube. It's audio only, but you can find and subscribe to Unchained as well as

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unconformed on YouTube. It's also on Spotify for those who asked and a host of

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other platforms like Pandora, Stitcher, Tune-In Google Play, I Heart, and many others, including,

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as some of you have discovered, United Airlines.

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Also, for those of you who requested transcripts, we have them for unchained.

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They may not be published right at the exact moment that the podcast goes live, but they are

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including a multi-six security app for iPhone and Android, a Trezer hardware wallet, a Coss of

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