It’s a story which has the potential to make the scandal over the hacking of celebrities’ mobile phone voicemails seem like small potatoes. BBC Radio 4 has broadcast a documentary claiming that computer hackers were used by the British press to spy on politicians and the military. According to the programme, the illicit mining of […]
UK police have warned a former British Cabinet minister that they are investigating evidence that his computer has hacked by private detectives working for Rupert Murdoch’s News International organisation and the disgraced “News of the World” newspaper. Peter Hain, who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 2005-2007, has been told by Scotland […]
The Leveson Inquiry, whose examination into the sometimes dodgy ethics and practices of British newspaper journalists is presently making headlines in the UK, has heard allegations of computer hacking. Ian Hurst, a former British army intelligence officer who handled IRA informers in Northern Ireland, has told the Leveson Inquiry today about how he believes his […]
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