The UK's Football Association (FA) is investigating a security breach which resulted in recordings of conversations between players and coaches for England's national soccer team in advance of the World Cup.

"Media outlets have been offered tapes reportedly made in the Grove Hotel in Hertfordshire where England's squad stayed in the run-up to last week's international friendly against Egypt," writes The Register's John Leyden.

"It's unclear how the hours-long recordings were made, much less who made them," Leyden writes. "Intercepting mobile phone conversations or planting a bugging device are both possibilities."

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