Hackers may have accessed Gordon Brown's emails

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http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/hackers-may-have-accessed-gordon-browns-emails-16097984.html

By James Cusick and Cahal Milmo
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
2 January 2012

Police investigating computer hacking by private investigators 
commissioned by national newspapers have uncovered evidence that emails 
sent and received by Gordon Brown during his time as Chancellor were 
illegally accessed.

Mr Brown's private communications, along with emails belonging to a former 
Labour adviser and lobbyist, Derek Draper, have been identified by 
Scotland Yard's Operation Tuleta team as potentially hacked material. They 
are currently looking at evidence from around 20 computers which hold data 
revealing that hundreds of individuals may have had their private emails 
hacked.

The links discovered from the seized computers suggest that the email 
investigation could involve as many victims as those involved in the News 
of the World phone-hacking scandal.

The eight-strong Tuleta team is looking at the possibility that several 
Fleet Street titles commissioned specialist private detectives to access 
computers. News International said yesterday that NI has "no alleged link" 
to Gordon Brown and Derek Draper.

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