New International ordered IT firm to delete emails

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LONDON—News International asked to delete a large number of emails from its system on nine different occasions in the past 15 months, a technology firm told British lawmakers probing phone hacking allegations on Monday.

India-based HCL Technologies said that it noticed nothing "abnormal or untoward" about the requests by News International, the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. embroiled in a widening phone hacking scandal.

The requests, which were made between April 2010 and July, included wiping more than 200,000 delivery failure messages, HCL told a parliamentary committee. They also included pruning old emails from the archives to stop the system crashing, and deleting duplicate emails after users were moved to a new version of software.