Comment on Gemalto's findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of SIM cardsparentComments−pja11yAh, this does look like a more plausible reason for the Gemalto hack: http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/20/8079083/gemalto-sim-card-g...Short version: Knowing the OTA key lets you push malware to the target phone SIM which you can use to surreptitiously exfiltrate data from the phone via SMS messages, amongst other things.
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Ah, this does look like a more plausible reason for the Gemalto hack: http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/20/8079083/gemalto-sim-card-g...
Short version: Knowing the OTA key lets you push malware to the target phone SIM which you can use to surreptitiously exfiltrate data from the phone via SMS messages, amongst other things.