MPs blame mobile phone companies over hacking scandal

Stuart Sumner
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Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone should have done more to protect and alert customers, according to a Commons Home Affairs Committee report

The Commons Home Affairs Committee, a body appointed by the House of Commons to examine Home Office policy, has blamed mobile phone companies for failing to tell their customers that they had been ...

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