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| Monday, 29 January 2007 | ||||
 People go hacking (and cracking) for the strangest reasons but.. wow! Now there’s also someone who hacks for gossip!
This could have been the beginning of an unconventional story about stolen secrets for frivolous reasons but even if the underground world is such a small world, there are no crunchy implications in this story and in spite of appearances, this digital intrusion, was committed for money. According to the Associated Press, a British tabloid journalist who hacked into royal officials' voicemail was sentenced Friday to four months in prison. Clive Goodman, 49, the royal editor of the News of the World, was probably looking for a career-saving scoop, so he hired a private investigator, Mr.Glenn Mulcaire, to hack into royal officials' voicemail systems and intercept messages from the members of the British royal family. Mr. Goodman’s lawyer claimed that “Mr. Goodman's stories were no longer considered adequate by his superiors.” “He was demoted, sidelined and a younger reporter was assigned to cover the royal family. Under that pressure, he feared for his job, “he said.
Unfortunately for Mr. Goodman the judge didn’t consider “working pressure” as a reasonable excuse to get uncontrolled access into Royal family’s life and he and Mr. Mulcaire where condemned to four and six months in prison. Soon after the sentences Andy Coulson, the editor of the News of the World, resigned. As admitted by Mr. mulcaire, managed in getting mobile phone network operators ‘s confidential pin numbers to access messages left on the Royal cell phones . So, between November 2005 and June 2006, he and Goodman and made 609 separate calls to the voicemail systems of three senior members of the royal household. Their lack of experience was the cause of a series of digital mistakes that allowed police to arrest them.
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