HP Sets Emergency Board Meeting…Company Under Criminal Investigation For Spying On Reporters, Board Members...

Bloomberg September 8, 2006 at 09:16 AM
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The scandal over Hewlett-Packard Co.'s secret probe to catch directors leaking information to the media deepened yesterday, with the California attorney general threatening to bring criminal charges.

Investigators hired by Chairwoman Patricia Dunn got board members' phone records using fake identities, and Dunn used the information to weed out the source of leaks under the assumption the methods were legal, according to Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard. Bill Lockyer, the state's highest-ranking law enforcement official, said he is working to determine who violated identity theft and computer-information theft laws.

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