Definition for phone hacking - Oxford Dictionaries Online (World English)

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	phone hacking (phone hack\|ing) noun [mass noun] the action or practice of gaining unauthorized access to data stored in another person’s phone, especially in order to access their voicemail: these claims may now be suspended while the police investigate the alleged phone hacking Derivatives phone hacker noun		More words in this category answering machine asynchronous base station baud blank call cellular DBS earth station fax 1 headphone party line reverse-charge SOS telegraph telesoftware trunking uplink webmail wire wireline Nearby Words phon phonaesthesia phonaesthetics phonation -phone phone ¹ phone ² phone bank phone book phone hacking phone sex phone tree phone-in phonecard phonematic phoneme phonetic phonetics phonetist