Cybersecurity
News Corp. Hacked Priest Phone to Get Story, Lawyer Says
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News Corp.’s News of the World tabloid hacked into a priest’s voice-mail messages to get scoops about British pop star Charlotte Church and her family, according to a witness statement described in court.
Father Richard Reardon, a Roman Catholic priest in Cardiff, Wales, hired a lawyer after police told him the newspaper’s former private detective, Glenn Mulcaire, had his phone number among thousands of pages of notes about victims, according to a court transcript of a Feb. 17 hearing in London.