Nintendo got hacked, and so did Sega, Electronic Arts, the News Corporation, Booz Allen Hamilton, NATO, and Lady Gaga.
In October, 2006, Google outbid Microsoft and the News Corporation to acquire YouTube.
And he added that he had met the News Corporation chief five times in the past five years, as opposed to 18 such meetings between Mr Murdoch and David Cameron and 19 with leaders of the Labour Party.
The News Corporation may be hoping that it can get back to business now that some of the responsible parties have been held to account and that people will see the incident as an aberrant byproduct of the world of British tabloids.
He went on to tell the inquiry that he was "pretty sure" he had shown Mr Murdoch a printout of the "For Neville" email three years ago, casting doubt on the News Corporation chief executive's claim not to have been aware of wider-spread evidence of hacking.
What will disturb News Corporation is that Ofcom and the OFT will reconsider whether the undertakings given by News Corporation to protect the editorial independence of Sky News are adequate, in the light of disclosures about the extent to which the News of the World was a law unto itself within the organisation.
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The management and standards committee of News Corporation, the parent company of News International, confirmed it had "terminated the contract of a member of staff in relation to his previous work".
In August, the Chairman of News Corporation, which owns the Times and the Sun newspapers and is the largest shareholder in BSkyB, told the Edinburgh Television Festival the BBC was "state-sponsored journalism".
The News of the World phone hacking scandal, which cost the jobs of top level News Corporation (NWS) executives over the last 10 days, has lit a fire under the armchair and desktop activists in the media reform movement.
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"I do not recognize all of what Fred Michel said, but nonetheless I appreciate that my activities at times went too far and have, taken together, created the perception that News Corporation had too close a relationship with the department, contrary to the clear requirements set out by Jeremy Hunt and the permanent secretary that this needed to be a fair and scrupulous process, " he said.
Mr Kavanagh had also told the BBC that there was "unease" at the paper over the fact that News Corporation's Management and Standards Committee had given police information which led to the most recent arrests.
The likelihood is that he will be asked to stand down as chairman at least temporarily, until News International - the UK arm of News Corporation - has been stabilised.
The BSkyB chairman - who also runs much of News Corporation, the publisher of The Times, Sunday Times, Sun and the News of the World - expressed particular concern over the public funding of the BBC's news output, which he called "state-sponsored journalism".
The disclosure is likely to infuriate News Corporation and the chief executive of its European and Asian operations, James Murdoch, who expected and hoped that the deal would be assessed only in Brussels by the EU competition regulator and only for its impact on the competitive landscape.
The boldest conglomerate is News Corporation, which sells online subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal and will begin charging for the newspaper's smart-phone applications.
Mr Murdoch, the chairman of News Corporation, has posted on Twitter recently indicating apparent support for Scottish independence.
So there could be further damage to the reputation of News Corporation, damage which could alienate advertisers and buyers of its newspapers and entertainment.
In the UK, News Corporation has been under mounting pressure to scrap its bid for a full takeover of TV giant BSkyB - in which it already owns a 39.1% share - since new phone-hacking allegations about the News of the World emerged last week.
If he were to step down pending resolution of the crisis at News Corporation, it is likely he would be replaced by BSkyB's senior non-executive director, Nick Ferguson - who in effect played that role in BSkyB's board discussions over News Corporation's attempt to purchase all of BSkyB.
Viacom is believed to have wanted to buy the site, but it lost out to News Corporation at the last moment.
Meanwhile, Mark Lewis, the solicitor representing alleged victims of phone hacking told the World at One, he would pursue News Corporation in the US "if appropriate".
In this way, News Corporation avoided the deal being sent to the Competition Commission for a long, detailed and expensive investigation - which is something that News Corporation was very keen to avoid (I know this because I was in regular contact with the company at the time).
Executives at News International, the UK arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, say they were unaware until today of allegations that the mobile phone of the murdered teenager Milly Dowler was hacked at the instigation of the News of the World.
The Met said the arrest followed the release of information by News Corporation's Management and Standards Committee and relates to the leaking of confidential information.
One of the biggest problems for News Corporation's film- and television-production business is digital piracy.
It emerged that James Murdoch has stepped down from the boards of the subsidiaries that operate News Corporation's British newspapers.
He nearly lost his job in the spring, following an entanglement with the Murdochs who run News Corporation hate figures in Britain.
But, as James Murdoch conceded yesterday at the Leveson Inquiry, News Corporation did not want this further lengthy scrutiny - because time is money.
But on Tuesday, former director of public prosecutions Lord Macdonald, who reviewed for NI's owner News Corporation the e-mails in a file relating to bribes allegedly paid to police, said they contained "evidence of serious criminal offences".
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