'News of the World' Also Hacked Families of 7/7 Victims

PM David Cameron plans to launch inquiry

As if hacking into the voicemails of a missing 13-year-old-girl and wrongly accused murder suspect weren’t already bad enough, another revelation has come to light in the News of the World hacking scandal: The Guardian is reporting that the ethically challenged tabloid also “targeted” the families of victims of the July 7, 2005 terrorist bombings in London.

Police officers leading “Operation Weeting”—the official hacking investigation—have been contacting the relatives of the victims to tell them that they may have had their private messages tapped by Glenn Mulcaire, a private detective who worked for the tabloid.

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