Mobile phone users could risk being hacked by China spies when 5G broadband launches next year, warns GCHQ boss

Mobile phone users could risk being hacked by China spies when 5G broadband launches next year, warns GCHQ boss

• GCHQ's head Jeremy Fleming warned of hacking by hostile states or terrorists
• Mr Fleming said UK must take measures to limit threat to national infrastructure 
• Comes after Huawei found UK has 'only limited assurance' it poses no threat

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

12 August 2018

Britain’s next generation super-fast mobile broadband could be vulnerable to Chinese espionage when launched next year, a spy suggested yesterday.

Jeremy Fleming, head of eavesdropping agency GCHQ, said ‘fifth generation’ mobile services, 5G, risk being hacked into by hostile states or terrorists.

He said new technologies will transform healthcare and create smart, energy-efficient cities. ‘But they also bring risks that, if unchecked, could make us more vulnerable to terrorists, hostile states and serious criminals’, he wrote in the Sunday Times.

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Jeremy Fleming, head of eavesdropping agency GCHQ (pictured), said ‘fifth generation’ mobile services, 5G, risk being hacked into by hostile states or terrorists