{"id":59015,"date":"2012-09-05T07:59:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T05:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=59015"},"modified":"2012-09-05T08:05:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T06:05:04","slug":"phone-hacking-hits-more-than-1000-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/59015-phone-hacking-hits-more-than-1000-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Phone hacking hits more than 1,000 users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police officer leading Britain&#8217;s inquiries into the tabloid phone hacking scandal says there were more than 1,000 likely victims &#8211; up from an estimate of 702 she gave in July.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers also told Parliament&#8217;s Home Affairs committee Tuesday that investigations into phone hacking, privacy breaches and corrupt payments could cost 40 million pounds ($63.5 million) over four years.<\/p>\n<p>She said police have identified 1,069 &#8220;likely&#8221; victims of phone hacking from the 4,744 full or partial identities police were reviewing as potential victims.<\/p>\n<p>The scandal erupted over revelations that staff at a tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch had routinely hacked into the cellphone voice mail messages of people in the public eye. So far 13 people have been charged by police.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/58901-sa-email-spam-percentage-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SA email spam percentage revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/57465-beware-of-smishing.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beware of smishing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/55225-cellphone-scam-costs-woman-r800000.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cellphone scam costs woman R800,000<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/53281-warning-sim-swap-fraud-on-the-rise.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Warning! SIM swap fraud on the rise<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK police say that the number of victims of the tabloid phone hacking scandal may have reached over 1,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":59027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,461,15113],"class_list":["post-59015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-hacking","tag-phone-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59029,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59015\/revisions\/59029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}