UK hack scandal , Targets were families of dead soldiers from Iraq and Afganistan.

[Stuart G]

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43662862/ns/technology_and_science-security/

LONDON — A phone hacking scandal sweeping Britain made a sordid turn late Wednesday with reports that personal information of the families of soldiers killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan were found in the files of a private detective working for a tabloid newspaper.

The personal details of the troops' families were discovered in the records kept by investigator Glenn Mulcaire, according to the Daily Telegraph, which did not disclose its source.

London police have contacted relatives to tell them their names and contact details appear in notebooks belonging to Mulcaire, the Guardian reported.

Military families reacted harshly to the news that they were targeted, calling it a "disgusting and indefensible assault on privacy," the Telegraph reported.

[marmar]

1. Rupert Murdoch is a vile organism.

nt

[Stuart G]

2. Do you think FOX News will report this headline at all??

Do you think that many of the Fox so called... news people will go after the owner of the paper that did the hacking the way they have gone after Obama, and the moderate to conservative paper we know as the.. New York Times?
Will their coverage of this story be, "fair and ballanced"?

here is a little tidbit that I was wondering if the Fox crew was reporting at length about another aspect of this convoluted tale... about "News of the World".

from the Huffington Post....look for this 6th paragraph down)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/04/news-of-the-world-hacked-milly-dowler_n_889809.html

"The newspaper is now accused of hacking into Dowler's voicemail and deleting several messages on her cell phone, giving her parents false hope that she was alive as well as potentially damaging the police effort to find her.

Lawyer Mark Lewis, representing the family, said he plans to sue the tabloid for its interference in the days after the girl went missing while heading home from school in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, south of London. Her remains were found in woodlands six months later by mushroom pickers. It was not clear how long she was alive after being abducted.

"It is distress heaped upon tragedy to learn that the News of the World had no humanity at such a terrible time," Lewis said. "The fact that they were prepared to act in such a heinous way that could have jeopardized the police investigation and give them false hope is despicable."