News Corp Scandal spreads as Justice Department monitors hacking allegations at European TV subsidiaries
Published by Julia Volkovah under SOCIETY'S COLLAPSE, WEAK JUSTICE on 1:09 AM
The crisis hitting Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is spreading as the U.S. Department of Justice monitors alleged hacking at two of the company's European satellite television firms.Two alleged incidents of hacking in Britain and Italy came to light today as American authorities get increasingly more involved in investigating the scandal.
A decade ago, a German hacker reportedly obtained codes belonging to British Sky Broadcasting rival ONDigital, which folded in 2002.
The hacker, Oliver Koermmerling, said on BBC1's Panorama programme last night that he was recruited by News Corp-owned NDS and its head of security, Ray Adams.
It is alleged that Adams supplied the codes obtained by Koermmerling to illegal download site, The House of Ill Compute to distribute ONDigital's services for free. Read More
