Follow events in the phone-hacking scandal that led to the closure of the News of the World newspaper.This article provides an overview of the news media phone hacking scandal that raised concerns about illegal acquisition of confidential information by news media. Edward Snowden: Leaks that exposed US spy programme. As the scandal widens, BBC News. China Morning Post that the NSA had led more than 61,000 hacking. The row over phone-hacking by journalists has led to the closure of the News of the World. Q&A: News of the World phone-hacking scandal. 4 August 2012. Rupert Murdoch at the printing presses of the New York Post in 1985: The media mogul is now engulfed in a massive phone-hacking scandal that threatens his empire. Talk: News media phone hacking scandal"Total Number" of people values on the "Status of arrests, charges, and convictions" table is reconciled with the numbers reported in Phone hacking scandal reference lists as follows (as of 9/1. Number of people arrested: 6. Reference Lists- 2 people not named on the Reference Lists as arrested but included in this table because they were charged (Jorsling, Sandell, added to named on Reference as arrested as of 2. Sept 2. 01. 2)- -- 9. Reference Lists[Added 3 arrests 3. Sept, one new Tuleta and 2 more to reconcile total Tultea arrests with The Guardian values using BBC's "Phone hacking: Arrests by investigation."[1]Number of people charged: 3. Date If Charged" column- 4 listed more than once in this table- -- 2. Reference Lists (which shows 3. Number of people convicted. Wendy and her Hot Talk panel weigh in on the Sony hacking scandal and their decision to pull "The Interview" from theaters. Date If Convicted" column. This is the same number shown in the Reference Lists for people convicted for illegal acquisition of confidential information since 1. Bryantbob (talk) 0. September 2. 01. 2 (UTC)^"Phone hacking: Arrests by investigation". BBCNews UK. 7 Sept 2. Retrieved 2. 0 Sept 2. News International phone hacking scandal. The News International phone- hacking scandal is a controversy involving the now defunct News of the World and other British newspapers published by News International, a subsidiary of the then News Corporation. Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories. Whilst investigations conducted from 2. British Royal Family, in July 2. Milly Dowler, relatives of deceased British soldiers, and victims of the 7 July 2. London bombings had also been hacked. The resulting public outcry against News Corporation and its owner Rupert Murdoch led to several high- profile resignations, including that of Dow Jones chief executive Les Hinton, News International legal manager Tom Crone and chief executive Rebekah Brooks. The commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service, Sir Paul Stephenson, also resigned. Advertiser boycotts led to the closure of the News of the World on 1. July 2. 01. 1, after 1. Continued public pressure shortly forced News Corporation to cancel its proposed takeover of the British satellite broadcaster BSky. B. British prime minister David Cameron announced on 6 July 2. Leveson Inquiry, would look into phone hacking and police bribery by the News of the World, consider the wider culture and ethics of the British newspaper industry and that the Press Complaints Commission would be replaced "entirely".[1][2] A number of arrests and convictions followed, most notably of the former News of the World managing editor Andy Coulson. Murdoch and his son, James, were summoned to give evidence at the Leveson Inquiry. Over the course of his testimony, Rupert Murdoch admitted that a cover- up had taken place within the News of the World to hide the scope of the phone hacking.[3] On 1 May 2. Murdoch "exhibited wilful blindness to what was going on in his companies and publications," and stated that he was "not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company."[4] On 3 July 2. Channel 4 News broadcast a secret tape in which Murdoch dismissively claims that investigators were "totally incompetent" and acted over "next to nothing", and excuses his papers' actions as "part of the culture of Fleet Street."[5]Early investigations, 1. By 2. 00. 2, "an organised trade in confidential personal information" had developed in Britain and was widely used by the British newspaper industry.[6][7] Illegal means of gaining information used included hacking the private voicemail accounts on mobile phones, hacking into computers, making false statements to officials, entrapment, blackmail, burglaries, theft of mobile phones and making payments to public officials.[8][9][1. Operation Nigeria[edit]Private investigators who were illegally providing information to the News of the World were also engaged in a variety of other illegal activities. Between 1. 99. 9 and 2. Jonathan Rees and his partner Sid Fillery, a former police officer, were also under suspicion for the murder of a private investigator named Daniel Morgan. The Met undertook an investigation of Rees, entitled Operation Nigeria, and tapped his telephone. Substantial evidence was accumulated that Rees was purchasing information from improper sources and that, amongst others, Alex Marunchak of the News of the World was paying him up to ВЈ1. Jonathan Rees reportedly bought information from former and serving police officers, Customs officers, a VAT inspector, bank employees, burglars, and from blaggers who would telephone the Inland Revenue, the DVLA, banks and phone companies, and deceive them into releasing confidential information.[1. Rees then sold the information to the News of the World, the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday Times.[1. The Operation Nigeria bugging ended in September 1. Rees was arrested when he was heard planning to plant drugs on a woman so that her husband could win custody of their child.[1. Rees was convicted in 2. Others individuals associated with Rees who were taped during Operation Nigeria, including Detective Constable Austin Warnes, former detective Duncan Hanrahan, former Detective Constable Martin King and former Detective Constable Tom Kingston, were prosecuted and jailed for various offences unrelated to phone hacking.[1. In June 2. 00. 2, Fillery had reportedly used his relationship with Alex Marunchak to arrange for private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, then doing work for News of the World, to obtain confidential information about Detective Chief Superintendent David Cook, one of the police officers investigating the murder of Daniel Morgan. Mulcaire obtained Cook's home address, his internal Metropolitan police payroll number, his date of birth and figures for his mortgage payments as well as physically following him and his family. Attempts to access Cook's voicemail and that of his wife, and possibly hack his computer and intercept his post were also suspected.[1. Documents reportedly held by Scotland Yard show that "Mulcaire did this on the instructions of Greg Miskiw, assistant editor at News of the World and a close friend of Marunchak." The Metropolitan Police Service handled this apparent attempt by agents of the News of the World to interfere with a murder inquiry by having informal discussions with Rebekah Brooks, then editor for the newspaper. Scotland Yard took no further action, apparently reflecting the desire of Dick Fedorcio, Director of Public Affairs and Internal Communication for the Met who had a close working relationship with Brooks, to avoid unnecessary friction with the newspaper."[1. No one was charged with illegal acquisition of confidential information as a result of Operation Nigeria, even though the Met reportedly collected hundreds of thousands of incriminating documents during the investigation into Jonathan Rees and his links with corrupt officers.[1. Fillery was convicted for child pornography offences in 2. Upon Rees' release from prison in 2. News of the World, where Andy Coulson had succeeded Rebekah Brooks as editor. Operation Motorman[edit]In 2. Operation Motorman, the Information Commissioner's Office,[2. The operation uncovered numerous invoices addressed to newspapers and magazines, which detailed prices for the provision of personal information. The ICO raided a private investigator named John Boyall, whose specialty was acquiring information from confidential databases. Glenn Mulcaire had been Boyall's assistant, until the autumn of 2. News of the World's assistant editor, Greg Miskiw gave him a full- time contract to do work for the newspaper.[1. When the ICO raided Boyall's premises in November 2. Steve Whittamore.[2. There they found "more than 1. This established that confidential information was illegally acquired from telephone companies, the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency and the Police National Computer. Media, especially newspapers, insurance companies and local authorities chasing council tax arrears all appear in the sales ledger" of the agency.[2. Whittamore's network gave him access to confidential records at telephone companies, banks, post offices, hotels, theatres, and prisons, including BT Group, Cr. Г©dit Lyonnais, Goldman Sachs, Hang Seng Bank, Glen Parva prison, and Stocken prison.[2. Although the ICO issued two reports, "What price privacy?" in May 2. What price privacy now?" in December 2. Operation Motorman was not made public.[2. Although there was evidence of many people being engaged in illegal activity, relatively few were questioned. Operation Motorman's lead investigator said in 2. The investigator.. The newspaper with the highest number of requests was the Daily Mail with 9. News of the World came fifth in the table, with 1. The Daily Mail rejected the accusations within the report insisting it only used private investigators to confirm public information, such as dates of birth.[2. Operation Glade[edit]Learning that Steve Whittamore was obtaining information from the police national computer, the Information Commissioner contacted the Metropolitan Police and the Met's anti- corruption unit initiated Operation Glade.[1. Whittamore's detailed records identified 2. Invoices submitted to News International "sometimes made explicit reference to obtaining a target's details from their phone number or their vehicle registration."[2. Between February 2. April 2. 00. 5, the Crown Prosecution Service charged ten men working for private detective agencies with crimes relating to the illegal acquisition of confidential information.[1. No journalists were charged.[2. Whittamore, Boyall, and two others pleaded guilty in April 2. According to ICO head Richard Thomas, "each pleaded guilty yet, despite the extent and the frequency of their admitted criminality, each was conditionally discharged [for two years], raising important questions for public policy."[1. Royal phone hacking scandal[edit]On 1. November 2. 00. 5, the News of the World published an article written by royal editor Clive Goodman, claiming that Prince William was in the process of borrowing a portable editing suite from ITV correspondent Tom Bradby. Following the publication, the Prince and Bradby met to try to figure out how the details of their arrangement had been leaked, as only two other people were aware of it. Prince William noted that another equally improbable leak had recently taken place regarding an appointment he had made with a knee surgeon.[2. The Prince and Bradby concluded it was likely that their voicemails were being accessed.[3. The Metropolitan Police set up an investigation under Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke reporting to Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman, commander of the Specialist Operations directorate, which included royal protection.[3. By January 2. 00.
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