This looks like it's going to get a lot worse for NewsCorp. Hopefully if proven true, our government will act on it.
A former New York City police officer claims that "journalists" from the now-defunct News of the World contacted him and said they would pay him to "retrieve the private phone records of the dead".
A relevant section of the article is quoted below the fold.
The pair chatted behind closed doors as a former New York cop made the 9/11 hacking claim. He alleged he was contacted by News of the World journalists who said they would pay him to retrieve the private phone records of the dead.
Now working as a private investigator, the ex-officer claimed reporters wanted the victim’s phone numbers and details of the calls they had made and received in the days leading up to the atrocity.
A source said: “This investigator is used by a lot of journalists in America and he recently told me that he was asked to hack into the 9/11 victims’ private phone data. He said that the journalists asked him to access records showing the calls that had been made to and from the mobile phones belonging to the victims and their relatives.
“His presumption was that they wanted the information so they could hack into the relevant voicemails, just like it has been shown they have done in the UK. The PI said he had to turn the job down. He knew how insensitive such research would be, and how bad it would look.
“The investigator said the journalists seemed particularly interested in getting the phone records belonging to the British victims of the attacks.”
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So an ex-NYC cop was being used by one of NewsCorp/News International's media outlets to scour for the phone records of British nationals who died on 9/11. Perhaps an investigation is required into Murdoch's American media outlets to see if American victims were robbed of their personal phone conversations without their consent.
Personally, I believe phone-hacking and other sorts of illegal means to obtain information run rampant in Murdoch's empire and the US government must step in with an investigation into Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post to determine whether personal data of American terror attack victims was compromised in any way.