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Paul McCartney's Ex-Wife Claims Mirrror Journalists Hacked Her Phone Heather Mills, the former wife of Paul McCartney, claims that a journalist working for the Mirror group newspapers hacked into her voicemail and asked her about the messages he heard.Mills told the BBC Newsnight programme that back in 2001 she was called by a reporter from Trinity Mirror, the company that owns the Da...	4 August 2011 09:43 GMT

Former Employees Claim The Sunday Mirror Hacked Voicemails People who used to work for the Sunday Mirror claim that voicemail hacking was a common practice at the British tabloid during the first half of the past decade.The so-called phone or voicemail hacking scandal that led to News of the World being closed down is extending to other publications as well.Several journalis...	25 July 2011 10:56 GMT

Notorious Phreaker Gets Sentenced to Eleven Years in Prison Matthew Weigman, a 19-year-old legally blind phreaker from Massachusetts, has been sentenced to over 11 years behind bars for making fake 911 calls, illegally listening to the phone conversations of others and harassing a Verizon investigator. Sean Benton, one of Weigman's partners in crime, also received an 18-...	30 June 2009 08:08 GMT

Phreakers Hit Australian Companies The media in Western Australia is reporting that hackers are compromising the Internet phone systems of various local companies and abuse the forwarding function to make phone calls to other countries. The WA police announced that it received multiple complaints from various businesses regarding such intrusions. The...	22 January 2009 03:47 GMT

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