It's not over yet. Phone operators say that over 100 accounts were hacked. Not "a handful". Also, Max Clifford's lawyers have obtained disclosure of evidence that the NoTW wanted kept secret... Jeremy Reed, Clifford's barrister, said the documents would help disprove the paper's claim that it generally did not do "naughty things". He told the court: "The documents are likely to illustrate the modus operandi of the News of the World's journalists when seeking private and confidential information about individuals for the purposes of stories being written about them." Anthony Hudson, counsel for the News of the World, said the paper resisted the disclosure of the documents, arguing they were irrelevant to Clifford's claim and contained no information about the publicist. He did not dispute the contents of the information commissioner's evidence which alleges that 27 News of the World reporters paid the investigator, Stephen Whittamore, to obtain personal data. One submitted 130 requests. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/03/news-of-the-world-phone-hacking