Vodafone fined €76m over Greek wiretap scandal

By John Leyden

Published Friday 15th December 2006 12:28 GMT

Greece’s privacy watchdog has fined Vodafone €76m ($100m) over a wiretapping scandal that saw the illegal monitoring of the mobile calls of top government officials including Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis.

Vodafone was ruled at fault for not preventing unknown hackers from subverting a legitimate surveillance system, supplied by Swedish firm Ericsson, to spy on Greek officials around the time of the 2004 Athens Olympics. The mobile operator said that the investigation was incomplete because officials were yet to question Ericsson. It plans to appeal the ruling.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/voda_fined_over_greek_wiretaps/