Answer:
Hacked the phones of...
Explanation:
This scandal was due to the involvement in the hacking of phones by certain reporters to a number of famous people in order to get tabloid materials.
The News of the World phone-hacking was a controversy involving a number of newspapers owned by a man called Rupert Murdoch. The employees of this newspapers were accused in phone hacking, mostly, but also in police bribery and blackmail in the pursuit of stories.
