article_snippet: Patrick Sensburg (above), the head of Germany's spying inquiry, claims his own encrypted mobile phone may have been hacked .
article_snippet: The head of a German inquiry into foreign spying believes The head of a German inquiry into foreign spying own mobile phone may have been hacked, his own mobile phone has been reported.
article_snippet: Patrick Sensburg is chairman of a committee set up last year over claims the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had listened in to Angela Merkel's phone calls.
article_snippet: Patrick Sensburg and other political figures had been issued with encrypted mobile phones that were said to be watertight against any hacking attempt.
article_snippet: Patrick Sensburg is reported to have sent his own mobile phone to Germany's IT security service in a lead-lined sealed container by German courier company DHL to be examined.
article_snippet: The BSI is now examining his own mobile phone.
highlights_snippet: Patrick Sensburg heads committee set up to investigate foreign spying .
  
highlights_snippet: Patrick Sensburg sent encrypted phone to IT specialists in lead-lined package .
  