Phone hacking: IT 'deleted Murdoch hacking email'

[dipsydoodle]

A 2008 email informing James Murdoch of the potential scope of phone hacking at the News of the World was deleted in an IT upgrade last year, lawyers say.

The Commons media committee has released a letter from law firm Linklaters detailing how the email was lost and thus not provided in evidence.

The email chain, released in December, mentions claims that phone hacking was "rife" at News International.

Mr Murdoch says he only read the final email, requesting a meeting with him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16830086

[alfredo]

1. How convenient.

[suffragette]

2. The modern version of Rose Mary Woods erasing for Nixon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Mary_Woods

[MADem]

6. Wasn't she a loyal little soldier? nt

[suffragette]

10. Yep and it sounds like the IT crew was for Murdoch

Wonder what else was "disappeared" in the IT "upgrade."

[MADem]

12. Anything that could harm anyone with the last name of Murdoch, for sure! nt

[LiberalArkie]

8. She only deleted the part where Nixon was listening to Arlo and Alice's Restaurant.

[suffragette]

9. Hey "You can get anything you want..."

LOL

[groundloop]

11. Hmmmm.... about 18-1/2 minutes. You might be onto something there!!!!

I WANNA KILL!!! KILL!!! KILL!!!!

[beac]

3. Does "IT upgrade" stand for

"International Thug upgrade"? Too late, Murdochs, the whole world already knows you are the lowest form of scum.

[polly7]

4. I know nothing about how all this works, but

wouldn't their email hosting provider have copies?

[jayfish]

5. What a load of BS.

When you maintain an e-mail system you usually maintain an entire message store or, at a more granular level, individual mail boxes. You don't maintain individual messages. They need to think their cover stories through a bit more.

[RoccoR5955]

7. Someone has backup

Whether they are on site, or off site, a good IT department should have BOTH onsite, and offsite backups, so if it was deleted, it was deleted multiple times, on purpose, with orders from the top!

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. The lawyer's letter claimed there was one backup, which failed

and which they never bothered backing up again. Instead, they migrated to a new system, and junked a load of old mail in the process. After the printed copy was found, they found electronics copies on (a) James Murdoch's current laptop (b) an old laptop of his (c) his PA's PC. Their excuse for not searching those devices earlier was "the system was designed to keep it all centrally". Which implies they were happy to lose a load of their old email when they migrated. Which doesn't add up, to me.

[RoccoR5955]

14. What about OLD backups?

Surely, if they are a good IT department, they backup AT LEAST once a day.
To say that there was a failed backup, and they never bothered to backup again, and instead install a new system, is illogical.
What of the people who needed to reference the old system? What of the need to migrate the old data into the new system? Did anyone think to ask those questions?