Latest Hacking Victim: Former Prime Minister

Gordon Brown's voicemail, financial and medical records targeted

The Guardian is out with a fresh report on the ongoing News Corp. phone hacking scandal, and this one is absolutely explosive. Journalists from "across News International"—that is, all of News Corp.'s UK newspaper subsidiary, and not just the now-defunct News of the World—"repeatedly targeted" former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the paper says, "attempting to access his voicemail and obtaining information from his bank account, his legal file as well as his family's medical records."

This newest information implicates two new News Corp.

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