phone hacking

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noun

an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.

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phone hacker, noun

These companies include Israel’s Cellebrite, which develops phone hacking and forensics tools, and which sells around the world to countries including the US, Russia, and China.
“A grim outlook”: How cyber surveillance is booming on a global scale|Patrick Howell O'Neill|November 8, 2021|MIT Technology Review
“We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He added, "I have not had this many phone calls since the shutdown of the government, truthfully."
Democrats Accidentally Save Boehner From Republican Coup|Ben Jacobs, Jackie Kucinich|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Now it can't open on my phone due to what appears to be software incompatibility.
My Week on Jewish Tinder|Emily Shire|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Eventually Morrow was released with no money, vehicle, or phone.
Are Police Stealing People’s Property?|Joan Blades, Matt Kibbe|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
My wife was talking to her on the phone, and I just kinda found the courage to ask her.
Deer Tick's John McCauley on Ten Years in Rock and Roll|James Joiner|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He crossed to the wall phone and gently removed the receiver from its hook and held it to his ear.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
The phone call wouldn't take long and he'd be coming back any minute now.
The Man from Time|Frank Belknap Long
From further back, through an open doorway, a girl's voice was shrieking for the police over the phone.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
And Lamb said a four-letter word after he had hung up and laughed out loud in the phone booth.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
It was such a partition as is effected by hacking a living man limb from limb.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay