This makes PRISM look tame in comparison

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The Great SIM Heist

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Now Gemalto says it wasn't that bad

Gemalto says that while it doesn’t doubt the fact of the breach taking place, it says that by 2010 it had “widely deployed” a secure transfer system with customers and “only rare exceptions” to the scheme could have potentially led to theft. In those cases, the keys that would have been breached would have only been those for 2G networks, not 3G or 4G networks. “3G and 4G networks are not vulnerable to this type of attack,” the company says.