Wireless carriers like to lock down smartphones in order to make it more difficult for users to switch to another carrier with a compatible network, and while it’s perfectly legal for users to just remove these locks themselves, carriers have no obligation unlock a user’s smartphone if they request it. That’s why Swift Unlocks was so popular a few years back, as the website would send you an unlock code for pretty much any AT&T smartphone on the market for a small fee, but how did it get its hands on those codes? Well, according to a recent lawsuit from AT&T, the people running the website were AT&T employees who were funneling the codes out of the company’s computer.
AT&T may have been the victim of a massive phone-unlocking scheme
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