Three individuals charged by United States prosecutors for orchestrating a series of SIM swap attacks have been linked to the $400 million hack of FTX in 2022, which occurred just hours after it filed for bankruptcy.
In a Jan. 24 filing in a Washington, D.C. District Court, United States federal prosecutors charged Robert Powell, Carter Rohn and Emily Hernandez with carrying out SIM swap attacks by stealing the identities of 50 victims and convincing telecom providers to port victims' numbers to the trio’s phones.