Gordon brown allegedly hacked

It claims Mr Brown was targeted during a period of more than 10 years, both as chancellor and as prime minister. The Guardian says its investigation found that some of the activity was obviously illegal while other incidents breached his privacy but not the law.

It also says Abbey National bank found evidence suggesting a "blagger" acting for the Sunday Times posed as Mr Brown on six occasions and gained details from his account. The Guardian article says: The sheer scale of the data assault on Brown is unusual, with evidence of attempts to obtain his legal, financial, tax, medical and police records as well as to listen to his voicemail. In many cases, there is evidence of a link to News International.

A statement from News International said: "We note the allegations made today concerning the reporting of matters relating to Gordon Brown. So that we can investigate these matters further, we ask that all information concerning these allegations is provided to us. In , Clive Goodman, the News Of The World's royal editor, and Glenn Mulcaire, the newspaper's private investigator, pleaded guilty to hacking into mobile phones belonging to members of Prince William and Prince Harry's staff.

NI, the newspaper's publisher, then commissioned its own inquiry into phone hacking - widely understood to be a collection of emails rather than a report. The Guardian claims a source at News International told the paper that five people at the company saw the report.

Tom Crone, News International editorial lawyer, was named by The Guardian as one of those who saw it. Mr Crone has denied the allegation, telling Sky News: "I had no involvement in the internal inquiry which involved the e-mails.

I was not made aware of the e-mails until the last few weeks. Sir Iain Duncan Smith said the Speaker had been contacted about the matter.

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Credit: ProfessorChas via Storyful. During the second half of the match, projectiles — including a glass bottle — were thrown from the home stand towards the playing area. Rupert Murdoch's media empire was besieged Monday by accusations that two more of his British newspapers engaged in privacy violations that included accessing former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's bank account information and stealing the medical records of his seriously ill baby son.

If proven true, the charges by rival newspapers seem certain to dramatically increase the pressure on Murdoch's News Corp. The public outrage began a week ago over wrongdoing at the Murdoch-owned best-selling tabloid News of the World. It has since disrupted the media titan's plans to take over highly profitable satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting and slashed billions off the value of his global conglomerate, News Corp. In Britain, the scandal has cast a harsh light on the unparalleled political influence of Murdoch's collection of newspaper titles, and is taking an increasing toll on Prime Minister David Cameron.

The conservative leader's former communications chief, Andy Coulson, was arrested last week in connection with allegations of payments to police when he was editor of News of the World. With political pressure rising, a final decision on the multi-billion pound BSKyB takeover was delayed after Murdoch withdrew a promise to spin off news channel Sky News, inviting the British government to refer the bid to authorities charged with enforcing anti-monopoly laws.

That is expected to delay any approval for months. Analysts said Murdoch's move amounts to a favor for Cameron, sparing the prime minister the possibility of an embarrassing defeat in the House of Commons on Wednesday on a motion from the opposition Labour Party opposing the takeover bid's approval.

The takeover will also be spared scrutiny during a period of once-unimaginable public criticism of Murdoch's British operation, News International, fuled by a relentless stream of new allegations of wrongdoing at its properties. British media began reporting Monday afternoon that Brown was one of thousands whose privacy was breached by News International papers, saying that his personal details — including his bank account and his son's medical records — had been stolen by people working for titles including the Sun and the Sunday Times.

None of the media cited sources. The Guardian, which set off the scandal last week with a report that the News of the World had hacked the phone of a kidnapped teenager, said on its website that the Sun had illegally obtained details from the medical records of Brown's 4-year-old son Fraser , who has cystic fibrosis.

The Sun broke the story of Fraser's illness soon after he was born in The Guardian reported that News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, then editor of the Sun, had contacted the Browns before publication to say that the paper had details from Fraser's medical file.

The Browns were extremely distressed by the story, friends told the Guardian. Brooks, who also edited the News of the World when journalists there allegedly hacked murder victim Milly Dowler's cell phone, has since been promoted to head of News International, News Corp. Most Popular. Depending on how you look at the U. By Matt Stieb and Benjamin Hart. As Novak Djokovic awaits a deportation decision, officials in three countries are looking into his potential pandemic violations.

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