The News of The World shuts shop in 2011
The News of the World, a 168-year-old U.K. tabloid shut shop this year in 2011 following their involvement in the phone-hacking scandal. They were alleged to have hacked many hapless victims' phones to leak sensitive information and later converted them to scoops in the popular tabloid.
A subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the incident saw illicit hacking of voicemail messages of celebrities, sport stars, politicians and victims of crime. [Read: 'News of The World' digs its own grave, to shut down]
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