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Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former communications director, believes his phone was hacked in 2003. [4] Lawyers acting for RMT trade union leader Bob Crow have written to the Metropolitan Police asking for any evidence or information that they may have uncovered in respect of NOTW. Crow has suspicions that "journalists may have had access to ...
News of the World and its then editor, Rebekah Brooks (née Wade), championed the campaign led by Sarah's mother for legislation to notify parents if a child sex offender lived nearby. Brooks gave Sarah's mother a mobile phone to facilitate communication. The phone was subsequently hacked by an agent of News of the World. [37]
[58] This article disclosed that voicemail messages from Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked back in 2002 by an agent of News of the World looking for a story. [59] This disclosure inflamed public opinion and led to loss of advertising for News of the World and subsequent closure of this 168-year-old newspaper.
A primary school maths teacher who hacked into a colleague's phone and found an intimate video of her before trying to send it to himself on WhatsApp has been banned from teaching. Brendon Fallows ...
The Media Standards Trust formed the pressure group Hacked Off, to campaign for a public inquiry. Soon after launch, the campaign gained the support of suspected hacking victim, the actor Hugh Grant, who became a public spokesperson, appearing on Question Time and Newsnight. [110]
The fallout from the 2015 hack of Ashley Madison, which leaked a list of the adultery site's users, is explored in the Netflix documentary series "Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies and Scandal."
The News International phone hacking scandal is a controversy involving the News of the World, a now-defunct British tabloid newspaper published by News International — a subsidiary of News Corporation — and the allegations that individuals working for the newspaper engaged in phone hacking, computer hacking, or corruption.
It was bad enough that the Sony hack exposed Emma Stone's cellphone number and email address in a WikiLeaks a few weeks ago. But it was the response by the actress, who has starred in nine Sony ...