You all must have heard about 20-year-old Noah Michael Urban, who was handed a 10-year prison sentence over a string of high-profile SIM swapping attacks on big U.S. carriers such as T-Mobile and AT&T in August 2025. While the case is certainly alarming, what makes it interesting is how the young man was not, in fact, a coding genius, but used exceptional social engineering tactics to trick the carriers into giving him access to customer information.

Noah Urban, a 20-year-old who outsmarted AT&T and T-Mobile without writing a single line of code

A Bloomberg report has shared more extensive details on how Urban started getting involved in cybercrime when he was merely 15 years old. It started with exploring conversations on online communities where discussions of SIM swapping are quite

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