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The victims of the phone hacking fall broadly into three categories, as identified by Nick Davies writing in The Guardian: [1] First, there are those people who have been approached and warned by The Scotland Yard that there was hard evidence of their voicemail being accessed without authority.
[21] As of 23 July 2012, the Met had identified 4,775 potential victims of phone hacking, of which 2,615 have been notified and 702 people are likely to have been victims. [22] 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 ...
The Law Society noted that it would be a serious offence if this hacking was done with the intention of affecting judicial outcomes. [44] Kirsty Brimelow; prominent criminal barrister who has represented clients in rape and murder trials. [45] Harris, Charlotte; solicitor representing alleged victims of phone hacking [33] [38] [39] [44]
The FBI, AT&T and Verizon — the two telecommunications companies the hacking campaign appears to have affected most severely — have for months alerted some victims whose phone calls were ...
Renewed Investigations by Scotland Yard in 2011 led to dozens of arrests for activities related to the phone hacking scandal. This list of persons arrested in phone-hacking scandal is a chronological listing of individuals arrested in conjunction with the illegal acquisition of confidential information by employees and other agents of news media companies referred to as the "phone hacking ...
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. On 8 & 9 July 2009, the newspaper ...
Britain's High Court ruled that Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, was the victim of phone hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), publisher of the Daily Mirror tabloid, on Friday. He has been ...
If the suppressed evidence became public, hundreds more phone hacking victims of News Group Newspapers (NGN), a subsidiary of News International, might be a position to take legal action against NGN newspapers including News of the World and The Sun. It might also provoke police inquiries into reporters and senior newspaper executives. [84]