Phone Hacking

[Robert Stratton]

I'm fairly certain that still works with most mobile carriers' voicemail systems in the U.S., unless users select the option to require entry of a PIN to access their messages. 

Unethical members of the private investigation industry have been getting information from mobile carriers via pretext calls for years here. It wouldn't surprise me that reporters could take advantage of that in the U.K. as well. 

--Bob S.

On Jan 22, 2011, at 2:31 AM, Mark Whittington wrote:

> I know that for some time (and possibly still) you could spoof your caller ID with VoIP here in the US and use that to get into some voicemail systems without a password.  You'd spoof the number you wanted access to and then call into the voicemail retrieval system.  It would happily assume that since you seemed to be calling from a subscriber number that you were the subscriber.
> 
> Oops.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Brian Hawes <brian.hawes at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There is a huge fuss going on over here, in U.K., about newspaper reporters hacking into personal voicemail, on a large scale.
> Nothing seems to have been said about how newspaper staff acquired the knowledge or the means to do this.
> Is it so easy, or are our newspapers staffed by retired spooks?
> 
> Brian Hawes
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