London ( CNN ) -- A journalist at Rupert Murdoch 's British tabloid newspaper The Sun was arrested Monday on suspicion of culling information from stolen cell phones . Police announced the arrest without naming the suspect , while a source close to the newspaper 's publisher , News International , confirmed it was Nick Parker . The source asked not to be named discussing internal company business . Read more : Timeline of UK phone hacking scandal . The arrest is the latest in a long-running police investigation prompted by illegal eavesdropping at the defunct Murdoch tabloid The News of the World , which has expanded into probes of computer hacking , bribery and corruption . Parker was arrested earlier as part of the corruption investigation , the source close to News International said . He has not been charged . The first charges for phone hacking itself came last week , as prosecutors charged a former aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron and a close confidant of media baron Rupert Murdoch , along with six others . Cameron 's former director of communications , Andy Coulson , and Rebekah Brooks , the former chief executive of Murdoch 's News International , were charged Tuesday . The announced names of the suspected hacking victims include some of the world 's biggest celebrities , including Angelina Jolie , Brad Pitt , Paul McCartney , soccer star Wayne Rooney and actor Jude Law . Read more : Full CPS statement . The phone-hacking accusations have reverberated through the top levels of British politics and journalism , led to the closing of a major tabloid and prompted a parliamentary committee to issue damning criticism of Murdoch . The charging announcement delivers one more public relations blow to Murdoch , who stepped down from a string of company boards of directors earlier this month and further distanced himself from the print business that first brought him fame and fortune . Coulson and Brooks are former editors of The News of the World , which was shut down last year in the face of public outrage at the hacking scandal . Parent company News Corp. 's multibillion-dollar bid to take over British Sky Broadcasting collapsed as the scandal spread . Brooks , who was charged with conspiracy to intercept voice mails of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler , vigorously denied the charges , saying she was `` distressed and angry . '' Coulson said he `` would n't and , more importantly , that I did n't , do anything to damage the Milly Dowler investigation . '' The scandal exploded with the revelation that the phone of Dowler , a 13-year-old British girl , was hacked after she disappeared in 2002 . She was later found murdered . Indications that her voice mail had been accessed had given her parents the false hope she was still alive . Prosecutors allege there were more than 600 victims of phone hacking between 2000 and 2006 . Read more : Familiar abuse of power as press fights regulation . Blog : Murdoch 's UK legal woes coming to the U.S. ? CNN 's Dan Rivers , Jonathan Wald and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report .
Nick Parker of the Sun is suspected of gathering data from stolen cell phones . The arrest comes after the first phone-hacking charges were filed last week . Comment: Angelina Jolie , Brad Pitt and Paul McCartney are among alleged celebrity victims .