Exclusive: Met finds secret phone at centre of NI hacking

[dipsydoodle]

Source: The Independent

Specialist detectives from the Metropolitan Police have discovered the existence of a secret mobile phone within News International's east London headquarters that was used in more than 1,000 incidents of illegal hacking.

The Independent has established that the phone, nicknamed "the hub", was registered to News International and located on the News of the World's news desk. Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan Police's hacking inquiry, has evidence that it was used illegally to access 1,150 numbers between 2004 and 2006.

Weeting officers regard the extensive use of the phone over two years as significant new evidence, showing that phone hacking was carried out within the paper's newsroom.

Despite detailed company logs recording every call made on the hub phone, it was left unexamined by two internal News International inquiries, which dismissed the notion that phone hacking was rife at the title.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-met-finds-secret-phone-at-centre-of-ni-hacking-2375996.html

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Met finds secret mobile phone used in more than 1,000 hacking incidents in News International probe

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053604/Met-finds-secret-mobile-phone-used-1-000-hacking-incidents-News-International-probe.html#ixzz1bsit6KH5

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[Fumesucker]

2. Well Duuhh.. It wuz seekrit...

If you examine seekrit stuff it's not seekrit no more..


:shrug:

[valerief]

11. +1

[lonestarnot]

18. Sucrets, weren't those a throat lozenge?

[AnneD]

22. You would need Sucrets...

for a Deep Throat operation. :spray:

[No Elephants]

3. Come again?

"Despite detailed company logs recording every call made on the hub phone, it was left unexamined by two internal News International inquiries, which dismissed the notion that phone hacking was rife at the title.

[Le Taz Hot]

9. Imagine that,

NewsCorp investigated itself and found itself innocent of all hancking charges. :eyes:

[Stuart G]

4. I guess someone wasn't telling the truth at "Murdoch Land" What a surprise..

[bettyellen]

5. .

[Overseas]

6. K&R.

[Kingofalldems]

7. Getting quite interesting.

[rfranklin]

8. Let's see some jail time now...crimes must be punished!

right wingers are always touting punishment...let's see some for these miscreants, starting with Rupert.

[JawJaw]

10. "Registered to News International"

They were too dumb, or arrogant (or more likely both) to use an unregistered pay as you go phone. Sheesh.

[dipsydoodle]

12. Chances are

that any organisation that size over here would use a bulk / minutes shared contract - they wouldn't bother with "pay as you go".

[14thColony]

17. I would imagine that in retrospect

they're probably regretting that decision...

[Sarah Ibarruri]

13. I'm glad they're getting to the bottom of this. Now if they'd get to the bottom of the media here..

Particularly gossip media, Faux News, and heck, all the others really. I'll bet there's lots to find out about them.

[harun]

19. I highly doubt they are getting to the real bottom of this. They are

uncovering some minor embarrassments but what lies behind that is what is looking more and more like the gov't, police and News Corp were in cahoots on this.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

25. You're right. nt

[malaise]

14. Oops!

:rofl: :rofl:

[lovuian]

15. Liars 1 Believers 0

It must be nice to hack into any phone and listen in

It might make you rich

[beac]

16. I cannot WAIT to watch little Jimmy Murdoch try to explain this away!

Hoping this is enough to "respectfully request" that Daddy M attend too. Of course, he wouldn't, but it would be fun watching him try to come up with an excuse other than "I don't want to incriminate myself."

Is there anyone left on the planet who still believes they haven't been doing the same thing here in the U.S.? Time to find "secret phone"'s Yankee cousin!

[Ganja Ninja]

20. Still nada from the justice department and FBI. n/t

[glinda]

24. So makes one wonder if they work in concert.

[Uncle Joe]

21. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, dipsydoodle.

[skyounkin]

23. Holy shit...

as soon as the hacking scandal came out you would have thought this would have been the FIRST thing they would have "shreaded.

Morans!!