Journalist Charged With Alleged Hacking Of Fox News

February 22, 2024 Fox News, Journalism

Tampa’s NBC affiliate reports:

Tim Burke, a journalist and husband of Tampa city council member Lynn Hurtak, was arrested Thursday in a case connected to alleged computer hacks at Fox News. He was indicted on several federal charges alleging he participated in a conspiracy to hack multiple computer systems and steal information.

Burke, who owns of the media company, Burke Communications, and an unnamed coconspirator are accused of unlawfully accessing servers belonging to multiple companies and transferring their protected information, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.

The clips, posted to Media Matters and Vice News, included Kanye West making antisemitic statements, peddling various conspiracy theories and describing his illusions of grandeur.

Tampa’s Fox affiliate reports:

According to the indictment, Burke and his co-conspirator communicated with each other through direct messages on Twitter and their Google accounts. In July 2023, Burke’s attorneys filed a motion saying there were no hacks and that he did not break the law.

They went on to say that the videos in question were publicly accessible on a website that was not encrypted and did not require a username and password.

At the time, the attorneys said the government was violating his rights. Burke is a reporter whose catfishing story on football player Manti Te’o became a Netflix series.

Rolling Stone reports:



The clips included embarrassing footage of Tucker Carlson making inappropriate comments to his make-up artist and talking about giving a deposition in the Dominion defamation case — an experience he said “triggered the shit out of me” — that was conducted by a lawyer whom Carlson referred to as a “slimy little motherfucker.” (Carlson was later dropped by the network.) The leaks were deeply embarrassing for Fox News, whose executives, the The Daily Beast reported, “full-on freaked out” about the Kanye clip in particular.

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