2010-07-23 13:33:04 -

Police in Ireland have launched an investigation over allegations TV musi c mogul LOUIS WALSH was targeted by a hacker who tapped into his private cell phone.
The X Factor judge and Boyzone manager was recently contacted by an exe cutive

at his telephone network service provider, who informed him an emp loyee of Vodafone had allegedly been caught snooping through his personal voicemail and text messages.
Police have now launched an investigation into the claims and Walsh is considering taking legal action against the firm.
He says, "I don't know how much personal information he managed to gath er or how long it was going on. I knew nothing about it at all until the boss of the company contacted me. I was told an employee had hacked my ph one.
"The last I heard the matter was with Gardai (Irish police force) and t here would be a court case.
"What measures are in place to stop this happening? It makes me very wa ry of exchanging confidential information by phone and yet it's hard to a void given the nature of this business." A statement from Vodafone reads, "Internal security processes recently discovered that a retail employee of Vodafone was involved in an incident of alleged misuse of customer information. (We) immediately notified the Garda and contacted the customer to advise on appropriate security measu res."