Reg probe bombshell: How we HACKED mobile voicemail without a PIN
Months after Leveson inquiry, your messages are still not secure
By Simon Rockman
24 Apr 2014 The RegisterSpecial report Voicemail inboxes on two UK mobile networks are wide open to being hacked. An investigation by The Register has found that even after Lord Leveson's press ethics inquiry, which delved into the practice of phone hacking, some telcos are not implementing even the most basic level of security.
Your humble correspondent has just listened to the private voicemail of a fellow Reg journalist's phone, accessed the voicemail inbox of a new SIM bought for testing purposes, and the inbox of someone with a SIM issued to police doing anti-terrorist work. I didn't need to use nor guess the login PIN for any of them; I faced no challenge to authenticate myself.
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