Cybersecurity
Mulcaire Asked News Corp. for $1.2 Million to Identify Hackers
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The British private eye jailed in 2007 for hacking into celebrities’ voice mails for News Corp.’s News of the World tabloid demanded 750,000 pounds ($1.2 million) from the company for information about his activities.
Glenn Mulcaire requested the money in June 2010 in exchange for providing News Corp.’s U.K. publishing unit with the names of reporters who instructed him to hack phones, the private investigator’s lawyer said at a trial today in London. The company didn’t pay the sum.