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How to hack Facebook using phone number

The social media giant facebook is very well known for its security features. The number of google searches on how to hack facebook is enormous. But do you know that an old but still working flaw can exploit to hack our facebook accounts using just our phone number?! But here the flaw is not actually relies on facebook. Its on our tele communication ss7 network(signaling system 7). SS7(signaling system 7) Flaw Ss7 is a set of protocols that are used to control world’s pstn(public switched telephone network is the world's collection of interconnected voice-oriented public telephone networks, both commercial and government-owned.) the ss7 technology is responsible for mobile number portability, prepaid payments, SMS and number translation. The messaging service highly relies on ss7. The flaw was actually discovered in 2008 but it was publicly published in 2014. And a real world attack was reported in this year for stealing money from the bank accounts. It is been said that the govern...