Tom Hardy frequently "bins and burns" his phones in a bid to maintain his privacy.
The 38-year-old actor - who has son Louis, seven, from a past relationship and a seven-month-old child with wife Charlotte Riley - is so paranoid about being hacked, he regularly splashes out on cheap pre-paid handsets which he then throws away.
And Tom also uses private offline servers to safeguard his personal information from prospective hackers.
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He told the Evening Standard newspaper: "We get hacked all the time.