The alleged hacker, who goes by 'Doomed,' says he used SIM swapping to get access to Walsh's account.
, a process in which a hacker would contact their target’s mobile carrier posing as them and claim to have a SIM card to activate on
their account. The carrier will then reassign a target’s phone number to the SIM card the hacker has, granting the hacker access to a plethora of the target’s passwords and two-factor authentication. Doomed claims that Walsh’s phone was hacked with help from an insider, and he also got access to Walsh’s Google and Microsoft accounts.
Walsh, a Daily Wire host himself, has so far made a career of being an online contrarian spouting right-wing ideologies in a bid to piss off liberal users and personalities. While Walsh has been skulking around the Internet for quite some time, he rose to prominence in June 2022 after his documentary titledmisleads and baits interviewees into reinforcing his weird obsession with gender politics and womanhood. It comes aswas released at the beginning of Pride Month.
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