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A Hacking Case Becomes a War of the Tabloids
The first two papers obtained the story via the normal tabloid route, paying the woman, Cornelia Crisan, £35,000 to tell all.
But it appears that
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, furious at the prospect of being outmaneuvered, took a sneakier approach: It illegally hacked into the voice mail messages of Ms. Crisan's press agent, Nicola Phillips, and stole the story, according to allegations in a new ...
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Summary
Papers in a lawsuit involving British tabloids shed an unflattering light on the way a newspaper, News of the World, relied on phone hacking as a method to gather information.
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