AT&T’s new Wireless Account Lock can protect you from SIM swapping

AT&T has a clever way of making sure that its customers are not exchanged SIM.

The telecommunications giant, which in particular just Accessive for a major regulations for the huge data violations, announced a new feature called wireless account locking on its website, via Tomsguide. It is available in the Myat & T Phone application for postpayed customers, and it is activated simply by pressing a rocking button. Once you have changed the wireless account locking, no one in the account can do the following until it is turned off:

The only way to do one of these things after locking the wireless account has been activated is to physically access the phone in which the application is installed and switch it. The idea here is to prevent the exchange of SIM, a form of online scam where the malicious actors essentially steal your phone number so that they can access your accounts of your accounts which require two factors authentication.

So if you are an AT&T client, it might be better to activate this, in case.