phone hacking
noun
an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
phone hacker
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a word derived from
phone hacking.
Example Sentences
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His emails included transcripts of voicemails between them, which the court was told, had been made by the phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire, a close associate of Greg Miskiw.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
Clive Goodman, a self-confessed royal phone hacker, told the court: "The police and the CPS had their own reasons to protect the discretion of the victims."
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2014
Was Reenan, who later spoke of “being set up by a sinister conspiracy” and died in 2004, really a cover for a nefarious phone hacker?
From Newsweek ● Jun. 26, 2011
