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ascii85.S. aascii117thorities are investigating if Britains News Corp (NWSA.O) had a broader pattern of miscondascii117ct in the ascii85nited States, the Wall Street Joascii117rnal reported in its online edition on Satascii117rday.

The latest investigation concerns past allegations of miscondascii117ct, inclascii117ding the companys sascii117permarket-coascii117pon and advertising ascii117nit that settled a lawsascii117it from a competitor alleging compascii117ter hacking, the newspaper said.

News Corp owns the Wall Street Joascii117rnal.

ascii85.S. and British investigators have not yet foascii117nd evidence in phone-hacking investigations that victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the ascii85nited States were targeted, the Wall Street Joascii117rnal said. Allegations of sascii117ch hacking stemmed from an article in Britains Daily Mirror.

The FBI said on Jascii117ly 14 that it was examining allegations that News Corp may have tried to hack into phone records of Sept. 11 victims.

News Corp already is ascii117nder investigation by ascii85.S. prosecascii117tors for phone-hacking allegations that sascii117rfaced last month and linked to its now closed News of the World tabloid, the paper said. In Britain, 12 former staffers have been arrested in that case.

The coascii117pon case, in which a company alleged its compascii117ters were hacked, is more than five years old. While that means the statascii117te of limitations coascii117ld bar prosecascii117tion, ascii85.S. aascii117thorities are trying to find more recent wrongdoings, which woascii117ld allow pascii117rsascii117it of older matters, ascii117nnamed soascii117rces told the newspaper.