Tabloid hacked victims: A British tabloid has been accused of hacking into the cell phones of crime victims, in a burgeoning scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire. Murdoch’s News of the World had already been censured for hacking the voice mail of celebrities and royals. Now there is evidence that reporters listened to messages on the phone of Milly Dowler, 13, who was abducted and murdered in 2002. They allegedly deleted some messages when the mailbox got full, giving false hope to the Dowler family and police, who thought Milly must be alive and deleting them herself. And relatives of people killed in the 2005 London subway bombings say police have told them their phones, too, may have been hacked. Lawmakers are calling for Rebekah Brooks, then editor of News of the World and now chief executive of Murdoch’s News International, to step down, and advertisers have pulled their support.
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