Phone hacking scandal

USA

How the Watergate scandal forever changed reporting on US politics

Fifty years ago, the conviction of Gordon Liddy and James McCord Jr, both helping hands of President Richard Nixon, started the media Tsunami that went down in history as the "Watergate scandal".

30/01/2023

Culture news

Why are Prince Harry and Sir Elton John suing Daily Mail publisher?

A group of high-profile people, including the mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, are suing Associated Newspapers over allegations of “gross breaches of privacy”.

07/10/2022

Greece

Greek intelligence chief resigns over alleged spying scandal

Panagiotis Kontoleon resigned Friday over allegations Greece's National Intelligence Agency hacked the phones of a journalist and a socialist opposition leader.

05/08/2022

Republic of North Macedonia

Former North Macedonia Prime Minister given fifth prison sentence

Nikola Gruevski has been living in exile in Hungary since 2018 and was convicted of abuse of power in absentia.

08/06/2022

Spain

Spain's intelligence chief dismissed over Pegasus spyware scandal

The agency has been under fire for spying on Catalan separatists and also failing to discover that Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had been hacked.

10/05/2022

Spain

Spain begins investigation into Catalonia Pegasus spyware allegations

A report found more than 60 pro-independence figures had their mobile phones hacked using the software.

25/04/2022

Republic of North Macedonia

Former Prime Minister of North Macedonia convicted of money laundering

It is Nikola Gruevski's third conviction since he left office in 2016.

21/04/2022

Poland

Polish opposition duo hacked with NSO spyware, digital researchers say

Citizen Lab could not say who ordered the hacks and NSO does not identify its clients, beyond saying it works only with legitimate government agencies.

20/12/2021

Republic of North Macedonia

Former North Macedonia police chief sentenced over wiretapping scandal

The former head of the North Macedonian intelligence police has been imprisoned for 12 years for co-ordinating a decade-long illegal wiretapping scandal.

26/02/2021

World News

Arrests in Europe over €82.4m SIM swapping scam targeting celebrities

The criminal network is believed to have stolen personal information and more than €82.4m in cryptocurrencies by swapping SIM cards, Europol said.

10/02/2021

Spain

Catalan politicians sue Spain's ex-spy chief over alleged phone hack

Roger Torrent, speaker of Catalonia’s regional parliament, said the lawsuit was filed "to defend our rights and claim responsibilities".

30/07/2020

USA

FBI investigating links between Trump campaign and Moscow

It is the first time James Comey has admitted that the agency is looking into whether Moscow tried to interfere in last year's presidential election.

20/03/2017

USA

"Utterly ridiculous": GCHQ trashes White House wiretap claims

Britain's GCHQ says claims that it helped Barack Obama eavesdrop on Donald Trump are "nonsense" and "should be ignored".

17/03/2017

World News

Euroviews. Conflicts in cyberspace: a normative approach to preventing cyberwars

The Russian cyber attacks that were meant to skew the 2016 US election toward Donald Trump have raised new concerns about conflicts in cyberspace. How might normative taboos, such as those against chemical and biological weapons, be adapted to the cyber realm?

13/03/2017

USA

US launches criminal probe into CIA leak

A federal criminal investigation is being opened into the public release of documents said to detail alleged CIA hacking tools.

09/03/2017

USA

Ex-intelligence chief rejects Trump's wire-tapping claims

Former national intelligence director James Clapper rejects President Trump's accusation Barack Obama wire-tapped him during his election campaign.

06/03/2017