It's really easy to steal your cellphone number, and that's a gateway to stealing everything else
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3RNZJ)
Consumer Reports covers cellphone identity theft, which includes taking out cellphone accounts in your name and using them to establish credit that can be leveraged to get credit-cards and loans in your name; and to steal your cellphone numbers and hijack your other accounts by intercepting two-factor authentication texts from your bank and other services. (more")