FBI seizes 80,000 emails from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in phone-hacking scandal

The US Federal Bureau of Investigations has seized 80,000 potentially damning emails from Rupert Murdoch’s News, giving the media titan worries on both sides of the Atlantic in the ongoing phone hacking scandal.

While Murdoch was in London facing the fallout from the conviction of one of his former star editors, it was disclosed in the US that the FBI took and shared the mountain of emails with British prosecutors. The emails, all copied from servers at News Corp’s Midtown headquarters, include messages Rebekah Brooks, Murdoch’s former protégé, sent up the chain of command during the height of the phone-hacking scandal, The Daily Beast reported.

The emails have been shared with British prosecutors, but they were not used as evidence in the trial of Brooks and former News of the World editor Andy Coulson.