All signs indicate that telephone hacking in the UK is on the increase.
Although there are very few estimates in the UK, the Siemens research reveals that six per cent of UK businesses have already been the victim of telephone hacking. A much publicised victim of telephone hacking is New Scotland Yard, which lost 1 million. Another large organisation that has recently been hacked into is J. Walter Thompson, the advertising company. The company lost 60,000 over a four day period to telephone fraudsters. In fact, an overwhelming majority of respondents from the Siemens research did not even know that it was possible to hack into an organisation's telephone system.