Coveney claims to have previously been hacked.

Can only thank the lord that we do not have any weapons such as missiles or some such in this country when the Minister for Defence claims his Phone was hacked and was being controlled by someone else.

The absolute state of this post. The Irish State was literally hacked just 2 months ago and the entire HSE IT system crashed because of it. It was fully acknowledged by the State that they were hacked and reported on by the media for weeks on end. So much for your "standard procedure". The US reports on attempted hacks of its IT systems all the time, its all there in the Mueller report if you want to gain some knowledge on the subject.

Really marko if you dont know what you're talking about its better to just keep your mouth shut rather than just go making stuff up which is patently and provably untrue.

Well I think that depends who the hacker is. The Pegasus software available for sale by an Israeli company can send texts/emails/Whatapps direct to the hacker in real time, this all came out just a few months ago when Saudi Arabia were caught phone hacking Saudi journalists who are in exile around the world. Jeff Bezos also had his phone hacked using that same software so if it can happen to him via an end to end encryption service like Whatapp then it can happen to anyone. Also when a text message is deleted it isnt truly deleted. Theres going to be metadata behind it that can be unscrambled, again this would be a straight forward task for an intelligence agency using the phone hacking software that is available to them.

In your own case you're talking about your company protecting against corporate espionage, the phone hacking software available to those spooks wouldnt be as high level as the software that is available to government intelligence agencies.

It was mentioned earlier on Virgin Media News that Coveney claimed he was hacked last Summer. If this is the case, why has it taken a year to announce this?

If Coveney's iPhone was hacked, it won't matter when he deleted his texts as once they arrive on his phone they will be compromised.

It is also worth noting that if his phone was checked, will only recent texts be found ? and if not it will show that he deleted texts that he wanted nobody else to see.

Michael Martin claims he knows nothing about this plus if this is true its no reason to delete texts on his phone.

From what I have heard he got a "phishing e mail or message" (which most of us have gotten.But his spin doctors have twisted this to him being hacked,which is rubbish.These boys really are taking the Irish people for fools.

Also nowhere in that article does it say his phone was attacked just that Coveney's name is used in a phishing attack

Wonder if the appointed KZ would be able to share simons exchanges. She probably was hacked as well. Lol

Just look up the details on the Jeff Bezos phone hack, which has never been offically confirmed by Amazon or Jeff Bezos himself and they certainly have not released into the public domain the exact in's an out of what exactly happened and security measures they undertake now.

I never knew that this forum was populated by so many Cyber Security experts!!🙄

But but but.... its not a hack.....

Tell us all, when did your family get phone calls or text messages that were apparently from your phone, but were actually someone else?

Or even more extreme.

Tell us, when did your boss or people you work with, in levels of important decision-making roles get a text or phone calls from your number, but it wasn't actually you?

Now escalate it to the State level where ministers of Foreign Affairs get phone calls or texts from another minister, but it's not them...

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I hope that puts to bed that it was indeed a very serious incident, which WAS reported to the Gardai at the time.

He is 100% right though, no IT system or phone is 100% secure. All one can do is take measures to make it as difficult as possible for nefarious perpetrators to gleam relevant data from your device or system.

Getting a new phone every year is one such measure. Deleting old data off it is another.