NIN: How to unblock your SIM

A lot of people woke up last week to see their lines, MTN, Airtel, Glo, 9mobile and others blocked due to National Identity Number (NIN). Each time you try to dial a number, a tiny voice therein keeps telling you to visit a nearby MTN, Glo, Airtel, or 9mobile office to link your NIN. Don’t…

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AT&T pays hackers $370,000 to delete leaked data

Wired magazine reported that AT&T paid a hacker about $370,000 to delete customer data that was stolen in a previous hacker attack. As previously reported, AT&T announced last week that hackers had hacked into a third-party cloud platform and obtained a large amount of customer data, including the phone numbers of cellular and landline customers, as well…

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