{"id":9672,"date":"2017-10-06T15:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/06\/murdochs-news-group-admits-benefiting-from-hacking-of-army-officers-emails\/"},"modified":"2017-10-06T15:55:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:55:17","slug":"murdochs-news-group-admits-benefiting-from-hacking-of-army-officers-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=9672","title":{"rendered":"Murdoch&#039;s News Group admits benefiting from hacking of army officer&#039;s emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher to pay substantial damages to Ian Hurst after admitting \u2018vicarious liability\u2019 for hacking by detective agencyRupert Murdoch\u2019s News Group Newspapers, the publisher of the Sun and the now-closed News of the World, has apologised in court and agreed to pay damages to a former army intelligence officer whose computer and emails were hacked.In a hearing at the high court on Friday, News Group admitted that a private investigations firm had hacked the computer of Ian Hurst and that its boss, Jonathan Rees, then sent intercepted information to the newspaper publisher. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/oct\/06\/murdochs-news-group-admits-benefiting-from-hacking-of-army-officers-emails\" target=\"_blank\">Murdoch&#039;s News Group admits benefiting from hacking of army officer&#039;s emails<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher to pay substantial damages to Ian Hurst after admitting \u2018vicarious liability\u2019 for hacking by detective agencyRupert Murdoch\u2019s News Group Newspapers, the publisher of the Sun and the now-closed News of the World, has apologised in court and agreed to pay damages to a former army intelligence officer whose computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}