Depending on what you mean by 'hacked' that's still newsworthy.
In this article 'wiretapped' means that they had uncontrolled and unlimited access to all conversations. The problem isn't so much that it could have happened but that it might have happened.
Every potential access or potential hack is newsworthy then. That’s about a million articles a day then. Which would mean it is not newsworthy then. Everything is a potential this or potential that by the reasoning.
