{"id":3757,"date":"2011-08-04T10:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T10:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:08:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:08:01","slug":"another-celebrity-used-cell-phone-hacking-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/another-celebrity-used-cell-phone-hacking-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Celebrity Used Cell Phone Hacking Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/phone643.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1597\" title=\"phone643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/phone643.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1597 lazyload\" title=\"phone643\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/phone643.gif\"><\/a>The former wife of Beatles legend Paul McCartney, Heather Mills, says that she too was a victim of the illegal used cell phone hacking activity carried out by journalists, which has become an extraordinary scandal in the United Kingdom.&nbsp; Mills claims that a reporter from United Kingdom newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror confessed to her ten years ago, back in 2001, that he had hacked into her cell phone in order to dig up juicy gossip for a story on her and McCartney.<\/p>\n<p>Mills has told the BBC\u2019s \u201cNewsnight\u201d program that the journalist backed off from printing the story after she confronted him with the fact that he had obviously gotten the story from her cell phone, after he \u201cstarted quoting 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