London, Jan 2 (ANI): E-mails sent and received by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown during his time as Chancellor might have been illegally accessed, it has emerged.
Brown's private communications, along with emails belonging to a former Labour adviser and lobbyist, Derek Draper, were identified by Scotland Yard's Operation Tuleta team as 'potentially hacked material'.
According to the Independent, the police is currently looking at evidence from around 20 computers which hold data revealing that hundreds of individuals may have had their private emails hacked.
A source with knowledge of the contents of some of the computers seized from private investigators revealed that hundreds of thousands of messages showed that Brown and Draper were targeted while the former Prime Minister was Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The period includes potentially sensitive episodes in the difficult relationship between Brown and Tony Blair.
One of Brown's former cabinet colleagues, Peter Hain, has confirmed that he held discussions with police officers investigating the potential hacking of his computers during the period when he was Northern Ireland Secretary.
The period discussed with Hain, from 2005 to 2007, overlaps with the period Operation Tuleta is looking at in connection with the Brown-Draper emails, the paper said.
According to the paper, the links discovered from the seized computers suggested that the email investigation could involve as many victims as those involved in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
Meanwhile, News International said that it has "no alleged link"to Gordon Brown and Draper.
Brown had previously accused NI of accessing parts of his private life including his bank accounts. (ANI)
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