{"id":73266,"date":"2013-03-14T14:28:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T12:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=73266"},"modified":"2013-03-14T14:29:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T12:29:46","slug":"journalists-arrested-over-phone-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/73266-journalists-arrested-over-phone-hacking.html","title":{"rendered":"Journalists arrested over phone hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four British journalists and former journalists were Thursday arrested as part of an investigation into illegal phone-hacking, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The scandal, which peaked in 2011, led to the closure of one newspaper, the launch of a judicial probe into media regulation, and has put pressure on the media empire of Rupert Murdoch, whose newspapers were those mainly involved.<\/p>\n<p>The three men and one woman arrested on Thursday were all current or former employees of the Mirror Group, which publishes the Mirror and Sunday Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Among them was the editor of the Sunday People newspaper, James Scott, the Guardian reported, which would make him the first serving editor to be detained in the affair.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged offences date back to 2003-04, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British journalists, former journalists, and a newspaper editor have been arrested in connection with the phone hacking scandal, according to reports <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":73270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,7005,18588,18582,18586,781,18584],"class_list":["post-73266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-cellphone-hacking","tag-james-scott","tag-mirror","tag-mirror-group","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-sunday-mirror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73266"}],"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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}