Paris
Hilton was among customers who had their calling card accounts cancelled
after it was discovered that a number of celebrity voicemail accounts had been
broken into, including that of singer and actress
Lindsay
Lohan.
SpoofCard.com,
which provides calling cards with which the caller can specify any outgoing
caller ID number, stated that it has cancelled 50 accounts that were using the
service to break into voicemail accounts.
The company confirmed that Hilton was one of the customers whose account was
cancelled, and that Lohan was one of the celebrities whose voicemail was broken
into.
Some mobile networks use caller ID to identify the caller and remove the need
for further security to access voicemail.
However, if the caller uses SpoofCard all they need to know is the victim's
phone number to gain full access to their voicemail.
SpoofCard said that it has implemented software controls on its network so
that customers can no longer use its service to break into the voicemail boxes
of Lohan or the other victims it has identified.
Hilton was herself the victim of a
mobile
phone hack last year. Hackers stole addresses, phone numbers, personal notes
and photographs stored on the celebrity's
T-Mobile
Sidekick II smartphone on 22 February 2005.
The supposed rivalry between Lohan and Hilton has been widely covered in the
tabloid press.
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