[ISN] News International security chief arrested in phone hacking case

http://www.csoonline.com/article/702151/news-international-security-chief-arrested-in-phone-hacking-case

By Taylor Armerding
CSO
March 14, 2012

Add one significant -- and different -- title to more than 30 current 
and former employees of News International, the News Corp. subsidiary 
that publishes Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers, who have been 
arrested in a phone hacking scandal.

The Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that Scotland Yard had 
arrested six people, including Mark Hanna, the media company's director 
of group security since 2009. While details are limited so far -- there 
has been no statement from law enforcement on what role, if any, Hanna 
may have played in the phone hacking -- like the others this week, he 
was arrested, "on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of 
justice," according to the Guardian.

Which is another way of saying that Hanna, along with Rebekah Brooks, 
the former News International chief executive and former editor of the 
Sun and the News of the World, and four others, are suspected of 
attempting to cover up alleged crimes such as bribing police or 
illegally intercepting voice mail or email.

Hanna is the first information security employee to be arrested. The 
others are executives, editors and reporters.

It was the second arrest for Brooks. She was first arrested last July 17 
in connection with phone hacking and corruption allegations, and had 
been free on bail. This time her husband, racehorse trainer Charlie 
Brooks, a longtime friend of Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, was 
also arrested.

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