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2006 HP Spying Scandal

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  1. On January 11, 2007, Bryan Wagner (a private investigator who was engaged by Hewlett-Packard in connection with the boardroom leaks and had already been charged in the California case) was charged by the federal government with conspiracy and identit

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  2. On September 5, 2006 Newsweek published a story revealing that the chairwoman of HP, Patricia Dunn had hired a team of independent electronic-security experts who spied on HP board members and several journalists, to determine the source of a leak of

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  3. The group of electronic-security experts used a technique known as pretexting to obtain call records of HP board members and nine journalists, including reporters for CNET, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal

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  4. The investigators had misrepresented themselves as the board members and journalists to their phone companies in order to obtain their phone records

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  5. Dunn has claimed she did not know beforehand the methods the investigators used to try and determine the source of the leak

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