Independent News and Media (INM) accused its former chairman Leslie Buckley of jeopardising the viability of the media group and the “privacy, personal safety and livelihoods of many people” after a secret trawl of journalists’ data took place under his direction, the High Court has heard. In newly released legal correspondence relating to the controversy from 2018, INM claimed that Buckley had given the board an “inaccurate and misleading” account of the alleged data hack, having “unlawfully” arranged for the collection and interrogation of company data in 2014. The details have emerged in court proceedings against the media group brought…

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