LONDON (AFP) ― Actress Sienna Miller told an inquiry Thursday her emails and phones were hacked by the News of the World as part of a “web of surveillance” that led her to make paranoid accusations against her friends.
It is the first time the inquiry has heard evidence that emails were hacked as well as phone voicemails, and came shortly after British police said they had made their first arrest in a computer hacking probe linked to the paper.
Miller, the ex-girlfriend of Hollywood star Jude Law, said when the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World paid her damages earlier this year she finally saw the notes of its private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
“All my telephone numbers, the three that I changed in three months, my access numbers, PIN numbers, my password for my email that was actually used to later hack my email in 2008 was on these notes,” Miller told the judge-led inquiry at London’s Royal Courts of Justice.
“A number of my friends, I think about 10 numbers in total, so there was just this web of surveillance which obviously makes it very easy to understand how they were getting all of this information.”
“Everyone close to me was being monitored and electronically listened to.”
Mulcaire was jailed for phone-hacking in 2007.
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British actress Sienna Miller arrives at the Leveson Inquiry into media practices at the High Court in central London on Thursday. (AP) |
Miller, the star of films including “Alfie” and “Factory Girl,” was one of the first British celebrities to take action against the News of the World for phone-hacking.
She said she became “intensely paranoid” and mistakenly accused family and friends of betraying her when information about her appeared in the press that had actually been hacked.
“I felt I was living in some sort of video game,” said Miller.
“I accused my family and people who would never dream of selling stories...I feel terrible that I would even consider accusing people of betraying me like that, especially people who would rather die than betray me.
