By Peter Campbell and Rob Davies PUBLISHED: 19:02 EST, 14 May 2013 | UPDATED: 01:38 EST, 15 May 2013 The Bank of England fears that its top officials have been victims of a spying operation by US financial news agency Bloomberg, it emerged last night. Senior members of the Bank, including Governor Sir Mervyn King, could have been targeted by employees of the news group to find out what stock market information they had been looking at on the company’s computer terminals. Reporters could use such information to predict economic decisions that affect millions of people, such as printing more money or keeping interest rates down.
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Bank fears Governor Sir Mervyn King may have been targeted
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News group employees may have spied on computers to see what stock market information senior bank members had looked at
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Bloomberg as admitted some reporters accessed private information
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