phones of the families of the 7/7 london transit bombings, les hinton was in charge when they hacked banking, legal files, and tax affairs. hinton was in charged when "news of the world" was charged of hacking into the phones of 9/11 victims, and until today les hinton was in charge of the wall street journal. he has, today, resigned. he feels it is proper to resign from news corp. the phone hacking scandal first broke five years ago when a private investigator and the former royal reporter of "news of the world" were arrested and jailed for hacking into the cell phones ofç members of the roya household. after that, les hinton testified twice, once in 2007, once in 2009. he told lawmakers he had carried out a thorough investigation and the hacking was limited to that