phone-hacking

A recently discovered group of malware that infects jailbroken iPhones has gathered the login information for more than 225,000 Apple accounts, and is believed to be one of the largest breach of Apple accounts ever.

Eight people were charged with phone hacking-related crimes Tuesday as the government-launched Leveson Inquiry reached its dramatic conclusion.

Multi-media magnate Rupert Murdoch and his son James will appear before the Leveson Inquiry in London this week to answer questions about phone-hacking and their responsibility in the practice in the papers they ran.

British lawyer Mark Lewis announced he will take legal action in the U.S. against News Corporation over the phone-hacking of three alleged victims in America.

Former head of news International Rebekah Brooks has been arrested as part of the police phone-hacking probe.

Paul Stephenson, former head of Metropolitan police, blames the “defensive mindset” of police for the failure to investigate phone-hacking allegations properly in 2009.

James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch, resigned on Wednesday as executive chairman of News International.

The parents of a murdered schoolgirl on Monday testified at a U.K. government inquiry into press ethics.

Police spoke to News International’s Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks in 2002 about alleged News of the World’s surveillance of a senior Metropolitan police detective.