{"id":5189,"date":"2020-01-07T20:12:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebluegryphon.com\/?p=5189"},"modified":"2020-01-07T20:12:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:12:16","slug":"happy-new-year-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebluegryphon.com\/fr\/2020\/01\/07\/happy-new-year-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2020!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Another year has now begun, and the team at the Blue Gryphon would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year 2020!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We would like to start off this year by sharing with you an important life lesson we were just served, may it serve you well!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If there is one advice we can give everyone at the beginning of this new year, it is this one:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you do not have it set up already, contact your mobile phone provider if you have a cellphone, and ask them if you can <strong>add a PIN number<\/strong> or extra layers of security to your <strong>phone account.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our master gryphon very recently learned, <strong>the hard way<\/strong>, that it is EXCESSIVELY easy for a fraudster to steal your phone number (have YOUR number transferred to THEIR phone, to a new provider).<\/p>\n<p>All they need is your phone number, name, and 2 (optional) personal informations. Given that there were many huge data breaches in 2019 and millions of people now have their personal info in the wind&#8230; Just assume someone has yours.<\/p>\n<p>Service providers (like <em><strong>Bell Mobility<\/strong><\/em>) will ask nothing more, and even told us that they technically are not even obligated to ask for ID to transfer your number to their service.<\/p>\n<p>And the transfer is very fast (under an hour). So a fraudster can very quickly use your phone number to have a password recovery code sent to your (now their) phone # to gain access to accounts you may *think* you have secured by using this method (like hotmail\/microsoft, to name just one).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trust us: You\u00a0<em>cannot<\/em> be too careful. Protect your phone account.<\/strong><br \/>\nLaws have been modified to make the processus so simple to transfer between providers that it is now an <strong>open bar for identity thieves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May our misadventure save you from going through the same thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With that said, may you all have a great year 2020!<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year has now begun, and the team at the Blue Gryphon would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year 2020!<\/p>\n<p>We would like to start off this year by sharing with you an important life lesson we were just served, may it serve you well and keep your identity safe(r)!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebluegryphon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/post-newyear2020.jpg?fit=960%2C960&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebluegryphon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebluegryphon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebluegryphon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebluegryphon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebluegryphon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thebluegryphon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5195,"href":"https:\/\/thebluegryphon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions\/5195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebluegryphon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebluegryphon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebluegryphon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebluegryphon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}