In 2009, The Times newspaper outed Lancashire detective Richard Horton, revealing him to be the anonymous author of the NightJack blog. The paper had successfully overturned an injunction preventing it from identifying the blogs author. However, emails presented at the Leveson Inquiry today reveal that a Times journalist, named as Patrick Foster, hacked into the email account of the police blogger. Editor James Harding told the inquiry into press standards that he regretted the intrusion and expected better of The Times”]
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/02/07/times-editor-apologises-for-nightjack-email-hacking/