Beware: your mobile phone’s voicemail may be at risk

MILLIONS of mobile phone voicemail boxes are at risk of being hacked into as the security of these accounts is not protected by proper legislation.

This is according to one of the country’s top security experts, Paul Dwyer, who said the current legislation covering access to private mobile phone voice messages is out-of-date.

Mr Dwyer, who has previously worked with the FBI and the US secret service, said Section 98 of the Postal and Telecommunications Service Act 1983 refers to the interception of messages and does not cover someone listening to messages. He said listening to another person’s voicemail would not be considered as interception because the material is already recorded.