NewsCorp paid $29 million in the US for hacking in 2009

[Ichingcarpenter]

In 2009, a federal case in New Jersey brought by a company called Floorgraphics went to trial, accusing News America of, wait for it, hacking its way into Floorgraphics’s password protected computer system.


The complaint summed up the ethos of News America nicely, saying it had “illegally accessed plaintiff’s computer system and obtained proprietary information” and “disseminated false, misleading and malicious information about the plaintiff.”


The complaint stated that the breach was traced to an I.P. address registered to News America and that after the break-in, Floorgraphics lost contracts from Safeway, Winn-Dixie and Piggly Wiggly.


Much of the lawsuit was based on the testimony of Robert Emmel, a former News America executive who had become a whistle-blower. After a few days of testimony, the News Corporation had heard enough. It settled with Floorgraphics for $29.5 million and then, days later, bought it, even though it reportedly had sales of less than $1 million.



They have paid over a half of billion dollars to cover up their crimes by just paying them off.



“Bury your mistakes,” Rupert Murdoch is fond of saying. But some mistakes don’t stay buried, no matter how much money you throw at them


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/business/media/for-news-corporation-troubles-that-money-cant-dispel.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp#

[aquart]

1. Wow. The NYT is a newspaper.

For a while I wasn't sure what it was.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. The New York times was extremely threaten by News corp

I'm sure the editors said
Go get em I don't care what you find

The rest of the Times story is even more revealing.
I just wanted to point out

THEY ALREADY HACKED IN THE US WHEN WE
HAD DUERS SAY THEY DIDN'T

[Joe Bacon]

5. Gosh is the Screw York Times acting like a real newspaper?

Gee, that's a miracle on the magnitude of the loaves and fishes!

[liberalla]

3. Wow is a good word for it. :o

Half of me is just open mouthed :o flabbergasted with the choots-pah of News Corp., and the other half is deriving pleasure from this growing story and hoping the monster brings Murdock down.

[Historic NY]

4. “This is not just about one individual but about the culture of an organization.” .........

yup

[aquart]

6. They did it and hid it. They did it HERE.

[DCKit]

7. Thanks for that... didn't know. nt

[mod mom]

8. Since this case was settled, can it be used in another actual case?

[malaise]

9. But a young man who hacked Sarah Palin was sent to prison

Up is down - looks like the corporations are now the only people who count

[Octafish]

10. Zombie America isn't dead all the way, yet, Rupie.

And your ass is grass and your pud soon'll be mud.

Most importantly: Thank you for the heads-up, Ichingcarpenter. Interesting times, indeed.

[Kingofalldems]

11. Special Prosecutor needed-- subpoena all Fox records

[leveymg]

12. Criminal and civil RICO, anyone? Does anyone still want to claim NewsCorp hasn't hacked in the US?

Here it is, right on the public record. Just waiting for the Justice Department to follow through and convene that Grand Jury.

Eric Holder, are you still working? Maybe, you shouldn't be.

And, oh yes, while you're at it - Indict Clarence Thomas

[ProfessionalLeftist]

13. The young man who hacked Sarah Palin went to prison?

Why is it different when News Corp/Murdoch does it? One is incorporated. One isn't. Is that it?

"This is not just about one individual but about the culture of an organization.” Yes - an organization which operates with the same craven criminality inside the United States as it does outside of it. Yet Jim DeMint - Republican of S.C. says "it's none of our business".

Since when is breaking law - over and over again - none of our business? When it's a CORPORATION that does it. ONLY in the United States.

[leveymg]

14. James O'Keefe didn't - but, that was just a fraternity prank . . . right?

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Over half a billion dollars - you'd think this criminality would be common knowledge ever since then

It makes that clip from Fox News saying "hacking is a real problem - why aren't the authorities stopping it?" look even more hypocritical.

Thanks for the thread.