Somebody awake Paul Revere! Last year’s News of the World phone-hacking scandal is coming to America, the BBC reports:

A British lawyer says he is taking legal action in the United States on behalf of three alleged victims of phone hacking by the News of the World.
Mark Lewis said the three were a “well-known sports person”, a sports person not in the public eye and a US citizen.
“The News of the World had thousands of people they hacked. Some of them were in America at the time, either travelling or resident there,” he said.
The now defunct paper’s owner, News International, has declined to comment.
Parent company News Corporation – chaired by Rupert Murdoch – shut the News of the World (NoW) after the scale of phone hacking at the tabloid emerged.
News Corporation also withdrew its bid to buy the remaining 61% stake in satellite broadcaster BSkyB saying it had become “too difficult to progress in this climate”.
Mr Lewis told the BBC News Channel that it was significant that legal action over phone hacking had moved outside the United Kingdom for the first time.
“The scandal as it is is not just then confined to the United Kingdom or to the United Kingdom companies like News International and News Group Newspapers.
“This goes to the heartland of News Corporation and we’ll be looking at the involvement of the parent company in terms of claims there and that is something that will be taken more seriously by perhaps the investors and shareholders in News Corporation.”

The rest here. For a refresher on the scandal, here are a few pieces I wrote about it last summer.