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Article: Cell phone records vulnerable, HP case shows
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- September 27, 2006
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Add your cell phone records to the growing list of personal
information that can be pilfered online or by simple deception.
The issue came out of the shadows this month after Hewlett-
Packard Chairwoman Patricia C. Dunn was forced to step down because
she hired private investigators to obtain cell phone records of board
members, employees and journalists to plug leaks of company
information.
In a common practice called "pretexting," the investigators
impersonated the suspects and persuaded phone company employees to
supply what they said were their own records. Dunn is being replaced
by former NCR chief Mark Hurd, who approved an elaborate e-mail sting
operation on a reporter in February ...