No such thing as phone hacking

I know that what some members of the News Of The World have done is disgusting but seriously do people think that phone spying (not hacking) is worse than Police corruption?

No phone hacking was done as hacking involves using malicious code against computers and servers etc. What NOTW did was simply guess passwords, Many of which were more than likely not changed from the default password that came with the phone.

I am not condoning here but lets just get some perspective, Phone spying is nothing compared to Police corruption end of!!