U.S. and British spies probably hacked us - phone SIM card maker

PARIS/FRANKFURT, Feb 25 (Reuters) - U.S. and British spies probably hacked into the world's biggest maker of phone SIM cards in an attempt to steal codes that protect the privacy of billions of mobile phone users, the company said on Wednesday. The Franco-Dutch firm, Gemalto, was responding to a report on an investigative news website that said the hack allowed Britain's GCHQ and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to potentially monitor the calls, texts and emails of cellphone users around the world. Gemalto said the attacks "probably happened", and aimed to intercept encryption codes that unlock mobile phone Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards while they were being shipped from its production facilities to mobile network operators worldwide.



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