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lnwlsh3
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Sim Swap Password

Hi,

 

On activate my sim step 2 (https://www.three.ie/activate-my-sim/step-2/) there is an option
"Have you updated your account with a password? (This can be a 4digit number
and/or a word or phrase)
"

I currently haven't but see no option in my3 to create such a password. How can I create this password?

Once I have created the password can I assume that any attempt to swap the sim for my number will be rejected? I want this to be the case but its ambiguous if someone will just be able to choose the No option to bypass once a password has been setup or not.

 

Thanks.

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Sorry about the delay in getting back to you @Inwlsh3 there are occasions when a customer might forget the pin/password, that is only available through our customer service. There may also be times where a customer would like to put through a SIM replacement after hours or may not be able to contact our customer service teams. Because of all this we provide other security questions so that customers can request SIM replacement through our online platform. In effect, to answer your question while the pin/password is a great feature, we do need to provide alternative security questions

 

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Three_Deborah
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@lnwlsh3 hello there, the password mentioned in the SIM replacement form is one that is create on your account profile on our customer Care systems rather than something via My3. Since posting yesterday, have you call 1913 or contacted messaging? 

 

Let me know! 

Thanks. Not called yet. Before accepting the solution can you answer whether setting up this password will prevent a sim swap if no is selected on step 2 as regards the password being setup. It seems like a great security feature but if it will 100% prevent the swap without the correct password being provided

Sorry about the delay in getting back to you @Inwlsh3 there are occasions when a customer might forget the pin/password, that is only available through our customer service. There may also be times where a customer would like to put through a SIM replacement after hours or may not be able to contact our customer service teams. Because of all this we provide other security questions so that customers can request SIM replacement through our online platform. In effect, to answer your question while the pin/password is a great feature, we do need to provide alternative security questions

 

Oh, that is really bad then 😞 You were almost the market leader in sim replacement security but are actually just the same as everyone else in offering not enough security.

Please feedback that you should make it clear to your customers that this option is offering an easily bypassed security gate and that three should give their customers the opportunity to turn off accepting answers to 'other security questions' so that we can have some level of actual additional security regarding sim replacements. A compromise could be to build in a cooling off period into the replacement i.e if no is selected on an account with a sim password then it takes 48 hours to process and requires the existing sim to not be used during that time frame. This allows customers to automatically reject these attempts to do bad things with a sim replacement.

Referring to "2. Select how much you would typically top up each month? 5-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30+" as a security question is being very complimentary to the difficulty in answering. It only has 4 options. Its quite possible that 20 is the answer to two of the 4 options and would be the dramatically most popular amount for most people. 50/50 chance best case or 1 in 4 chance of getting it right worse case. That doesnt really compare to the effort to guess a 4 digit pin.

 

You are close to offering a really strong additional layer of security and its possible to do that without impacting customer experience.

Accepted solution. Thanks Deborah for the quick answers. You are doing a great job and I hope the decision makers take feedback and provide you with more secure options to educate us all on in the future.

@Inwlsh3 I've reached out to some teams already, but I would ask, when you have the time, to pop this over to our Idea's board or with your permission, I can move it there. 

 

If people can still find it by searching for 'sim swap password' then yes, absolutely move it to the Idea's board. If not I think it should stay here so that people can find the answer in the future.