Security News > 2010 > September > Sienna Miller set to sue 'News of the World' over phone hacking
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/sienna-miller-set-to-sue-news-of-the-world-over-phone-hacking-2079555.html By Ian Burrell Media Editor The Independent 15 September 2010 The actress Sienna Miller is poised to become the latest litigant to join a growing queue of high-profile figures seeking damages from the publishers of the News of the World newspaper over the illegal hacking of voicemail messages. It also emerged last night that Sean Hoare, the reporter whose testimony was central to The New York Times's article that reignited the phone-hacking controversy, has been interviewed by police under caution. The favourite cover girl of magazine editors and the star of such films as Alfie and Layer Cake is understood to have discovered that her mobile phone was targeted by Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator hired by the News of the World at a cost of £100,000-a-year. Mulcaire was jailed for six months in January 2007 for phone hacking. Mulcaire admitted hacking into the voicemail messages of aides to the royal family as well as several high-profile figures including Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association and Max Clifford, the publicist. Both Mr Taylor and Mr Clifford have taken action against Rupert Murdoch's News Group, the publishers of the News of the World, and both claims were settled out of court for around £1m each. [...]