Phone hacking is the easy part, knowing a prominent person’s private phone number & using it in this matter is criminal.
Personally I think he got it from another reporter in the newsroom by saying he needed to call the governor for a story and that’s how he got it by hacking a friend
Personally I think he got it from another reporter in the newsroom by saying he needed to call the governor for a story and that’s how he got it by hacking a friend