AT&T has been sued for a second time over claims its staff gave thieves access to a specific individual’s account, who then used it to steal a large chunk of cryptocurrency.
Seth Shapiro’s $1.9m claim follows in the footsteps of Michael Terpin, who sued the gigantic cellular network in 2018 for more or less the same thing: staff ported a subscriber's phone number to a hacker – a so-called SIM swap scam – allowing the miscreant to steal what Terpin claims, in his case, was $24m in cryptocurrency.
But while Terpin’s court battle has been allowed to move forward, Shapiro is still fighting AT&T lawyers to get his legal challenge past its first stage and approved by a judge for trial. In the most happened again allegedly transferring victim number thieves cryptocoin heist
