Sunday's Dateline: Hacked Off

Sunday's Dateline on SBS ONE hears some of the personal stories of people who've been told their phones could have been hacked.

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Amid the worldwide headlines over the phone hacking scandal in the UK, it was the news that murder victims and their families had been hacked that caused the most anger.

reported on some of those personal stories.

Graham Foulkes lost his son, David, in the 2005 London bombings, and believes journalists listened to the family's anguished messages as they tried to contact him.

On top of that, he tells Dateline video journalist Evan Williams that he thinks the police sold his number to the News of the World.

Evan also meets Rose Gentle, whose son, Gordon, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2005. She describes the news that her phone could have been hacked as 'like being invaded'.

Their stories are just two of the estimated 4,000 possible victims now being investigated, in a story that's reverberating around the world and could spell the end of Rupert Murdoch's empire.





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Published 22 July 2011 9:37am
Updated 26 August 2013 9:20am
By Dateline
Source: Dateline


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