by: Erik Larson and Robert Hutton | Bloomberg

News Corp.’s Times newspaper in Britain is being investigated by police over possible computer hacking by a reporter, spreading the company’s media scandal to a third Rupert Murdoch paper in the U.K.

The Metropolitan Police Service is investigating the Times over e-mail hacking, Labour party lawmaker Tom Watson said in an e-mail. Officers from Operation Tuleta, which is probing possible computer hacking, said they have been in contact with Watson, police said in a separate e-mail.