Tom Hardy is a man prepared to go to drastic measures to protect his privacy.
The Oscar Nominee apparently burns his phones regularly in order to prevent them from getting hacked by outsiders looking to learn information about his private life.
"We get hacked all the time," the actor told the Evening Standard. We’re assuming that’s not the royal we – but all Hardy’s hangers-on, too. "You just have to bin and burn the phone and start again, we have to go through burners. We’re burning numbers left, right and centre."
Explaining how hackers infiltrate the devices, Tom went on: "People go on to messengers and try to set up accounts with profiles. Or try to get into the phone itself, or they get hold of the number and they start fishing about, and my family as well, anyone I’m related to."
He added: "I’ll burn numbers and then I’ll have private offline servers for my email accounts. It’s quite painful when you think about, we’re quite normal people in that aspect."
Hardy also revealed that even his parents have been caught in the crossfires when people have been attempting to hack him.
"My mum and dad don’t need to have their photos of stuff gone through or any of their private messages," he said. "Just because people want to find or piece together something maybe prurient or salacious, and even worse take money from people or move things around."
Via Metro
