Since many editors had to have known of the illegal hacking, and many people on the business side would have had to sign off on large, illegal payments to the police for information, more apples will drop in coming days.

The Guardian has led the way on the phone-hacking story since Nick Davies's report in July 2009 that News International had paid £1m to gag the victims of illegal hacking.

She had claimed that 33 stories about her that appeared in the News of the World were the product of illegal hacking into her family's voice mail.

Mr Key made a complaint to the police and tried to compare the incident to illegal hacking in the News of the World scandal in Britain.

Syco Music and its artists have been the targets of illegal hacking on several separate occasions.

In this version, he appears somewhat of an anti-hero and comic relief, the movie opens with Fergee returning to Mega-City One after serving six months for illegal hacking.

Some problems, like obsessive computer use and illegal hacking, did not exist a generation ago.

The Australian has admitted in the past that he came close to a breakdown after being tried on charges of illegal hacking in the mid 1990s, which also led to a bitter break-up with the mother of his baby son.

The word is a homophone of "phreak" (referring to the illegal hacking of telephone systems), which it probably inspired.

Less than 6 months prior to the 2008 breach, a 16 year old student used illegal hacking and password retrieval software to gain access to an encrypted file he had illegally downloaded.