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Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former communications director, believes his phone was hacked in 2003. 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 ...
Jeff Bezos phone hacking incident. Jeff Bezos in 2017. In January 2020, the FTI Consulting company claimed that in May 2018 with "medium to high confidence" the phone of Jeff Bezos had been hacked by a file sent from the WhatsApp account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman. [1] [2] The Saudi Arabian embassy to the United ...
A small number of victims of phone hacking engaged solicitors and made civil claims for invasion of privacy. By March 2010, News International had spent over £2 million settling court cases with victims of phone hacking. As information about these claims leaked out, The Guardian continued to follow the story.
Here, Blair is seen with the queen and fellow former PMs David Cameron, Sir John Major, and Gordon Brown ahead of a Diamond Jubilee lunch at 10 Downing Street. Anwar Hussein - Getty Images You ...
The News of the World royal phone hacking scandal was a scandal which developed in 2005 to 2007 around the interception of voicemail relating to the British royal family by a private investigator working for a News of the World journalist. It formed a prelude to the wider News International phone hacking scandal which developed in 2009 and ...
As of 31 August 2012, the Met had identified 4,744 victims of phone hacking by News of the World whose names and phone numbers had been found in evidence. Of the victims, 658 had been contacted, but 388 were not contactable and police chose not to contact another 23 "for operational reasons". Of the victims, 1,894 had been contacted but 1,781 ...
June: The city of Riviera Beach, Florida, paid roughly $600,000 ransom in Bitcointo hackers who seized their computers using ransomware.[138] Hackers stole 18 hours of unreleased music from the band Radioheaddemanding $150,000 ransom. Radiohead released the music to the public anyway and did not pay the ransom.
The phone was subsequently hacked by an agent of News of the World. Six months later, Sir Paul McCartney left a voicemail message for his then girlfriend, Heather Mills, trying to work things out. Mirror Group journalists hacked the phone to listen in. Piers Morgan, editor of the Daily Mirror at the time, later acknowledged listening to it.