PHONE HACKING SUSPECT IN COURT Taken from West Australian AN ALLEGED ringleader of a $148,000 telephone hacking operation appeared in a Perth Magistrates Court yesterday. [ SIN! ], 19, student was charged with three counts of unlawfully inserting data into a voice mail box on a Telecom Message Bank and one count of obtaining access to data stored on a computer. The offences were allegedly commited by manipulating the voicemail boxes of two companies, Smith & Nephew of Victoria and V-mark Australia of North Sydney. On Friday, an alleged hacker who turned 18 in January appeared in the Magistrates Court and a 17 year-old appeard in the Childrens Court on similar charges. [ SIN! ] is alleged to have commited the offences between October and March 28. He was not required to plead and has been ordered to reappear on April 26. The charges come after a long investiagtion by the Australian Federal Police.