Police have told two senior Mail On Sunday journalists their phones may have been hacked by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
Their names have been found in notebooks belonging to Mulcaire, who was hired by the News Of The World and jailed in 2007 for phone hacking.
One of the journalists is former news editor Sebastian Hamilton while the other is ex-investigations editor Dennis Rice, the Mail On Sunday confirmed.
Four years ago, Mulcaire was sentenced to six months in prison for plotting to hack into the telephone messages of Royal aides.
Police have said around 4,000 people could have had their phones targeted as officers continue their investigation, named Operation Weeting, into the phone-hacking scandal.
The latest allegations were revealed by Sky's Jeff Randall.
He said: "Sebastian Hamilton is currently editor of the Mail On Sunday in Ireland.
"He told me that Scotland Yard assumes Mulcaire was going into his phone - one to see if it could pinch any stories.
"And two for commercial advantage. Did he have any information about the purchase of serialisation rights, that sort of thing.
"In effect, what the News Of The World was up to was nothing sort of industrial espionage."
A spokesman for the newspaper said: "I can confirm that two senior journalists have been contacted by Operation Weeting officers and told that their phones may have been hacked by Glenn Mulcaire."
It has previously been reported that Mr Rice was launching legal action against the News Of The World over the alleged hacking.
Source: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/newspaper-journalists-may-hacking-victims-171317151.html
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