Tech Firm Says News International Deleted 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Emails
Revelation could be trouble for company in midst of hacking scandal
In the latest development in the hacking scandal in which Rupert Murdoch's media empire currently finds itself embroiled, tech firm HCL alleged in a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee that News Corp. subsidiary News International deleted “hundreds of thousands” of emails between April 2010 and last month, the committee’s chairman Keith Vaz said last night.
“I am most surprised by the contents of the letter sent on behalf of HCL,” Vaz told Reuters. “The fact that so many emails have been deleted at the request of News International raises a number of further questions which we will continue to probe.”
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