I came across the following sentence in [another
post](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/19585/51280):

> 悪いわさ話を聞かれてしまった。

I'm assuming わさ is slang for 噂, so that the sentence becomes

> 悪い噂話を聞かれてしまった。

**Question:** Since 聞く ("to hear") is taking the passive tense ("to be
heard"), and the 悪い噂話 ("bad rumor") is the thing being heard, shouldn't 悪い噂話
have the が (or は) particle attached to it instead of the を particle? For
example in English:

> A _bad rumor_ was heard.

It seems to me "bad rumor" is the subject and not the direct object of this
sentence.
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Why is 悪いわさ話 marked with を in 「悪いわさ話を聞かれてしまった」?