News media phone hacking scandal evidence seized from Mulcaire back in August 2006. By mid-year, five people were arrested, including senior journalists from "News of the World". In June 2011, the long-ignored issue of computer hacking was addressed by the launching of . Having failed thus far to put the phone hacking issue to rest, News International's law firm, Hickman & Rose, now hired former Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald to review the emails that News International executives had used as the basis of their claim that no one at "News of the World" but Clive Goodman had been involved in phone hacking. Macdonald
2009–2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations warning that the Metropolitan Police would "deeply resent" an inquiry. Several days later the paper revealed comments by former "News of the World" journalist Paul McMullan on how widespread phone hacking had been under Andy Coulson; McMullan was one of six former "News of the World" journalists "who have independently told the Guardian that Coulson ... knew that his reporters were engaging in unlawful acts.". In September 2010, "The New York Times" published the results of an investigation it had begun in March which revealed further details about the extent of the "News of the World"'s phone hacking, and about