Security breach on PinePhone UBports SMS

[Dendrocalamus64]

The Venmo thing isn't necessarily related to you. People really hate SMS verification. There is an entire industry which has sprung up to help people get around it, with lists of public phone numbers you can use for account creation instead, phone numbers you can rent using cryptocurrency, even splitting phone numbers to get the cost down, so person 1 would be able to use that number for a Google account, person 2 for a facebook account, person 3 for a Venmo account, and so on, with the web interface or forwarding only making the messages available to the appropriate subscriber. It's quite possible someone was trying 50 public numbers with Venmo trying to find one that would work and entered the one that routes to your phone by accident because it was one digit off. Or that number may have been rotated through a public list some time before. They have to keep rotating the lists because many sites will only allow a number to be used once, or twig & blacklist it once it's being used too often.

All of the rest just sounds like your provider has your SMS routing set up wrong. Text messages sent to your number get routed to a different phone, and some unknown other number routes to yours. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the Pinephone.