Ofcom probes Sky.(World News)

U.K. media regulator Ofcom has launched a probe into the hacking of private email accounts by BSkyB's Sky News.

It comes after the News Corp.-controlled net admitted earlier this month that it accessed the accounts of a Brit who faked his own death so his wife could claim the insurance, among other instances.

Giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, set up to examine press ethics in the U.K. in the wake of the phone-hacking and police corruption scandal at News Corp.'s now-defunct News of the World, Sky News topper John Ryley also acknowledged that Sky had misled the investigation last year.

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BSkyB CEO Jeremy Darroch was made …