Messages to tapping targets are published

An online news website published on Thursday some of the malicious text messages sent to 92 people in order to infect their cellphones with the Predator spyware.

Following complaints by some of those whose cellphones were affected, including the leader of the socialist PASOK party, Nikos Androulakis, Greece's Data Protection Authority investigated and identified 220 messages containing a fake link infected with the Predator tracking software. The DPA also determined that the infected messages were sent to users of 92 phone numbers.

News website Inside Story published messages sent to local and government officials, as well as an official holding an important security position in the National Intelligence Service (EYP) and the executive editor of Kathimerini newspaper, Alexis Papachelas.

The texts were such that the recipients could hardly ignore them as...