The hack of the century: Greek mobile wiretap scandal unpicked

Published on 11/07/2007
by John Leyden on "The Register"

More details have emerged on how Vodafone's Greek network was bugged three years ago to spy on top government officials.
To recap one of the most extraordinary wiretapping scandals of the post-Cold War era: eavesdroppers tapped the mobile phones of Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, cabinet ministers and security officials for about nine months between June 2004-Mar 2005 around the time of the Athens Olympics.

The mobile phones of about 100 people, whose ranks include journalists and Arabs living in Greece, as well as the country's political and security elite and a US embassy worker, were monitored after snooping software was illegally installed on the systems of Vodafone Greece. Click for more...