In July 2011, Rupert Murdoch and others attended a British Parliamentary committee regarding the phone hacking scandal. The phone hacking scandal happened when the News of the World newspaper hacked the phones of celebrities and well known people to get the information to publish in their papers, personal information that they had no right to have. When the newspaper was then shut down due to this, Rupert Murdoch argued that since he ran a global business of 53 employees and that the news of the world was just 1% of this; he wasn’t actually responsible for what went on at the tabloid. As an outcome of this, he announced that he had not considered resigning as he didn’t think he was fully responsible; however he admitted that it was the wrong doing of his company.
Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of publishing stories.
Investigations conducted from 2005–2007 concluded that the paper's phone hacking activities were limited to celebrities, politicians and members of the British Royal Family. However, in July 2011, it was revealed that the phones of murdered schoolgirl Millie Dowler relatives of deceased British soldiers, and victims of the 9/11 were also accessed, resulting in a public outcry against News Corporation and owner Rupert Murdoch. Advertiser boycotts contributed to the closure of the News Of the World on 10 July, ending 168 years of publication.
There were also other British newspapers by News International that were involved with the hacking scandals, although the News of The World is the main newspaper to be involved and the most talked about.
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