Phone Tapping in Greece
Unknowns tapped the mobile phones of about 100 Greek politicians and offices, including the U.S. embassy in Athens and the Greek prime minister.
Details are sketchy, but it seems that a piece of malicious code was discovered by Ericsson technicians in Vodafone’s mobile phone software. The code tapped into the conference call system. It “conference called” phone calls to 14 prepaid mobile phones where the calls were recorded.
Some details are here. See also this news article, and—if you can read Greek—this one.
Roy • February 3, 2006 11:50 AM
Remember that billion dollars Greece spent on security for the Olympics? I bet this was paid for out of that money.