phone hacking
- an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
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When Rupert Murdoch flew into London as the phone-hacking allegations exploded in 2011, he was asked for his top priority.
Since the phone-hacking scandal that shuttered the News of the World broke, there have been more than 100 related arrests.
Coulson faces perjury charges relating to a phone-hacking trial in Scotland.
Watson was one of the leading members of the select committee that began looking at the phone-hacking allegations in 2009.
Back in 2009, Crone told Parliament that the phone-hacking allegations concerned only one rogue reporter and a private detective.