Blogging History: Genius graphic novel Murdoch reporters hacked thousands in UK

One year ago today

GENIUS: beautiful graphic novel about inspiration, Einstein, and self-doubt: Genius is a new graphic novel written by Steven T Seagle and drawn by Teddy Kristiansen and it's not really like any other graphic novels I've read. In a very good way.

Five years ago today

Rupert Murdoch reporters in the UK illegally hacked thousands of peoples' data: British journalists working for Murdoch papers have been on a crime spree, hiring private eyes to illegally hack into the voicemail and data of thousands of people, including " tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemised phone bills"; Murdoch has paid out over £1M so far to hush it up.