Mobile operators beef up voicemail security as hacking scandal grows
As the phone hacking saga continues to grip the country, mobile operators are saying that spying on someone's voicemail messages wouldn't be possible today as several weaknesses in the systems have been eliminated.
Reporters and private investigators working for the News of the World and Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., are accused of repeatedly illegally accessed the voicemail messages of more than 4,000 people -- from royal family members to an abducted and later murdered 13-year-old girl in 2002 -- for information for news stories.
The scandal has led to the arrest of a top adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron and two senior officials at Scotland Yard resigning so far. Murdoch, his son James, and Rebekah Brooks -- formerly chief executive of News International and editor of the now-closed News of the World tabloid -- are due to answer questions in Parliament this afternoon.
