Obama's 'spy-proof' blackberry can be breached, says world's most famous hacker

Washington, February 14 (ANI): While U.S. President Barack Obama's blackberry has been claimed to be a spy-proof device, the world's most famous hacker Kevin Mitnick says that it can still be breached.

He said that Obama's super-secure BlackBerry only makes cracking into it more challenging, but it can still be done.

"It's a long shot, but it's possible. You'd probably need to be pretty sophisticated, but there's people out there who are," Fox News quoted Mitnick as saying.

Mitnick served nearly five years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of wire and computer fraud for hacking into computer systems at some of the country's largest cell-phone and computer companies during the 1990s, and he presently heads Mitnick Security Consulting.

"If I was the attacker, I would look to Obama's close circle of friends, family and associates and try to compromise their machines at home. The objective would be to get Obama's e-mail address on the BlackBerry," Mitnick said.

He said that hackers might target a person with access to Obama because their networks would be much less secure than those used by the commander-in-chief.

Mitnick added that upon being armed with Obama's coveted e-mail address, any hacker might send an e-mail to Obama in an attempt to lure him to a Web site that had previously been breached in order to transfer "malicious code".

He, however, warned any potential hacker to consider the consequences before acting.

"The government would go after them full force," he said.

Obama administration officials declined to comment on the issue. (ANI)