By Nicholas Vinocur and Eric Auchard PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - U.S. and British spies are likely to have hacked into SIM card maker Gemalto in an attempt to steal codes that protect the privacy of billions of mobile phone users, the company said, as it sought to downplay the impact and ruled out legal action. The Franco-Dutch firm was responding to a report on an investigative news website that said the hack allowed Britain's GCHQ and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to potentially monitor the calls, texts and emails of cellphone users around the world. "The facts are hard to prove from a legal perspective and ... the history of going after a state shows it is costly, lengthy and rather arbitrary," Gemalto Chief Executive Olivier Piou told a news conference in Paris to discuss the findings of its own investigation into the alleged hacking in 2010 and 201l. Gemalto - the world's biggest maker of SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) cards, now producing nearly 2 billion a year - said the attack "probably happened" but that it "could not have resulted in a massive theft of SIM encryption keys".
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