LONDON — Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper group, received about $11 million when she resigned last year in the midst of the scandal over phone hacking and other malpractice at two of the company’s tabloid newspapers, people familiar with the terms of her severance agreement say.

A former employee of The News of the World, the paper at the heart of the scandal, said that the figure of about $11.3 million that was reported in The Financial Times on Tuesday was consistent with the figure being discussed within News International at the time that Ms. Brooks quit.

The former employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of a confidentiality clause in his own severance agreement with the company, said that rank-and-file journalists at The News of the World, which Mr. Murdoch shut down shortly before Ms. Brooks resigned, were “as angry as the general public” was likely to be at the size of Ms. Brooks’s severance benefits, which included reimbursement of her legal fees and the use of a car and chauffeur as well as salary and pension payouts. Much smaller sums were paid to the more than 150 other employees who lost their jobs in the paper’s closing.

Reports in the British news media on Tuesday said that there were “clawback” provisions in Ms. Brooks’s severance package entitling News International to recover some of the money in certain circumstances — most notably, according to The Guardian, “if Brooks was to be found guilty of a criminal offense relating to her employment.”