[ISN] Murdoch reporter 'hired computer hacker'

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:07:30 -0600 (CST)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/murdoch-reporter-hired-computer-hacker-2240975.html

By Cahal Milmo and Martin Hickman
Independent.co.uk
14 March 2011

A senior journalist at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World allegedly paid 
a private investigator to hack into the computer of a former 
intelligence officer.

The BBC's Panorama programme, to be broadcast tonight, will claim that 
the hacking led to the interception of emails in July 2006, when the 
newspaper was being edited by Andy Coulson, who later resigned as the 
Prime Minister's communications director.

Mr Coulson, who is not the senior journalist who allegedly commissioned 
the hacking, has always denied any knowledge of lawbreaking at the 
title.

According to Panorama, one attempt centred on a former intelligence 
officer who had sensitive information about an informant in Northern 
Ireland who was the subject of a court order. Football managers are also 
said to have been the target of computer hacking.

So far allegations of hacking at the News of the World (NotW) have 
involved the illegal eavesdropping of mobile phone voicemails. The 
NotW's royal editor Clive Goodman was jailed alongside a private 
investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, four years ago for hacking the phones of 
royal aides.

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