The MSS, he said, hacks for all forms of intelligence: foreign, military and commercial.
The Financial Times, opted for the line that the price of shares in Trinity Mirror, where Evans previously worked, had fallen by four per cent as a result of the reporter's claims that he hacked phones for the Sunday Mirror.
The company said it could not determine whether the Chinese man was a lone attacker, whether he had a direct or indirect role or whether he hacked the targets for someone else.
An earlier Zuckerberg creation, Facemash, almost led to his expulsion after he hacked university computers for student photos.
Asked by the lead prosecution counsel, Andrew Edis QC, how many people he had hacked for the NOTW, Evans said "couple of hundred, maybe accessed a thousand or more voicemails – not as many as I did at the Sunday Mirror – but a lot".
The former student, Matthew Lawrence, 19, was a senior at Shelton High School when he hacked into the site for the office of human resources at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the police charge.
After purchasing a stuffed unicorn for testing, he hacked it.
And he hacked, and he hacked, and he hacked, and for almost 20 years it got him absolutely nowhere.
A Federal Policy Loophole Is Supporting the Hacking-for-Hire Market.
