<p>British police today arrested a journalist from Rupert Murdoch's market-leading tabloid The Sun on suspicion of computer hacking, its publisher said.<br /><br />Police said one man was arrested in a dawn raid on his home in north London as part of Operation Tuleta, an investigation into computer hacking linked to Britain's phone-hacking scandal.</p>.<p>"Officers from Operation Tuleta arrested a man at his home in north London at about 6:30 am (0530 GMT) this morning," a Scotland Yard spokesman told AFP, saying that no further details were immediately available.</p>.<p>British media named the journalist as Sun reporter Rhrodri Phillips.</p>.<p>News International, the British newspaper arm of Murdoch's US-based News Corporation media empire, confirmed that one of its employees had been detained.</p>.<p>"A journalist from The Sun was arrested this morning," a spokeswoman told AFP.<br />The arrest is the seventh as part of Operation Tuleta.</p>.<p>Tuleta is one of three linked inquiries sparked by the phone-hacking scandal at Murdoch's now defunct News of the World weekly tabloid.</p>.<p>The operation is being run alongside Operation Weeting, an investigation into phone hacking at British newspapers, and Operation Elveden, into inappropriate payments by journalists to police and public officials.</p>.<p>More than 60 people have been arrested in the three investigations, including Rebekah Brooks, a former top aide to Murdoch and friend of British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Cameron's former media chief Andy Coulson.</p>.<p>Australian-born tycoon Murdoch closed the 168-year-old News of the World in July 2011 after revelations that it had accessed the voicemail of a murdered schoolgirl, as well as dozens of public figures.<br /><br /></p>
<p>British police today arrested a journalist from Rupert Murdoch's market-leading tabloid The Sun on suspicion of computer hacking, its publisher said.<br /><br />Police said one man was arrested in a dawn raid on his home in north London as part of Operation Tuleta, an investigation into computer hacking linked to Britain's phone-hacking scandal.</p>.<p>"Officers from Operation Tuleta arrested a man at his home in north London at about 6:30 am (0530 GMT) this morning," a Scotland Yard spokesman told AFP, saying that no further details were immediately available.</p>.<p>British media named the journalist as Sun reporter Rhrodri Phillips.</p>.<p>News International, the British newspaper arm of Murdoch's US-based News Corporation media empire, confirmed that one of its employees had been detained.</p>.<p>"A journalist from The Sun was arrested this morning," a spokeswoman told AFP.<br />The arrest is the seventh as part of Operation Tuleta.</p>.<p>Tuleta is one of three linked inquiries sparked by the phone-hacking scandal at Murdoch's now defunct News of the World weekly tabloid.</p>.<p>The operation is being run alongside Operation Weeting, an investigation into phone hacking at British newspapers, and Operation Elveden, into inappropriate payments by journalists to police and public officials.</p>.<p>More than 60 people have been arrested in the three investigations, including Rebekah Brooks, a former top aide to Murdoch and friend of British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Cameron's former media chief Andy Coulson.</p>.<p>Australian-born tycoon Murdoch closed the 168-year-old News of the World in July 2011 after revelations that it had accessed the voicemail of a murdered schoolgirl, as well as dozens of public figures.<br /><br /></p>