Canada's privacy watchdog is sounding the alarm about the threat of hackers intercepting mobile phone communications from a single phone number. In his annual report, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien responded to an investigative report by Radio-Canada-CBC. Any network that does not adopt adequate security measures is vulnerable to hacking through SS7. His cellphone used the Rogers network, but the Bell Canada network also was successfully tested and hacked. "As you have shown, it is vulnerable to, among other things, the hacking of communications that the cell phone uses.

Source: CBC News September 28, 2018 18:56 UTC