News Corp. Response to Hacking Was ‘Deficient,’ Expert Said

News Corp.’s response to allegations of hacking from its U.S. marketing arm was “rudimentary and deficient,” according to an expert hired by a New Jersey company that said its password-protected website was accessed illegally.

The expert was retained by lawyers for Floorgraphics Inc., which sold floor advertising in grocery stores, to investigate how its website was hacked by someone at News America Marketing In-Store Services. Luke Cats, then a forensic examiner at the firm Stroz Friedberg LLC, wrote in a 2007 report that News America Marketing “gained unauthorized access” to Floorgraphics’ secure site 11 times from October 2003 to January