Dunn out immediately as HP chairman; Hurd apologizes for leak scandal
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Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd announced that Board Chairman Patricia Dunn has resigned from the board, effective immediately, in the wake of a boardroom leak scandal that has swept over the company.
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PALO ALTO, California  - Hewlett-Packard Co. said   on Friday that Chairman Patricia Dunn has resigned effective   immediately, as pressure mounts on the computer maker over the   methods it used to investigate boardroom leaks.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard board of directors took no action at a special Sunday meeting and will reconvene late Monday to continueÂ discussions about the scandalÂ that has occupied the company over the past week. The board held a teleconference Sunday morning for several hours, according to a brief company statement issued Sunday afternoon, to discuss reports that outside investigators, acting on behalf of the board,Â obtained phone recordsÂ of directors and journalists to trace the source of information leaks regarding board meetings. The investigators' tactic of disguising their true identity in order to gain access to customer records, called "pretexting," may be in violation of the law and the California Attorney General's office is investigating the case. HP gave no reason in its statement for the move to adjourn Sunday's meeting to Monday. HP Board Chairman Patricia Dunn has been criticized for launching the investigation, including calls for her resignation. Dunn said she was "appalled" that the investigators engaged in pretexting but said that she was not told details of how they conducted their probe. While she has said that she won't resign on her own, she would step down if the board requested her to do so. The investigation determined that HP director George Keyworth was the source of a story CNet Networks Inc. story in January about HP's business strategy. When Keyworth was asked to resign from the board in May, he refused. But board member Thomas Perkins, a renowned Silicon Valley venture capitalist, resigned in protest over the way in which the investigation was conducted. Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd, in a letter to company employees released late Friday, urged them to keep focused on their work. "The media coverage and speculation regarding the recent actions of the HP Board ... have nothing to do with the strategy or operations of Hewlett-Packard," he said. Hurd, who emphasized that he was speaking as CEO and not as a board member, added: "There has been a long history of leaking company information with the HP board that clearly needs to be resolved."
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Dunnygate The director fingered by HP as its boardroom leaker has agreed to abandon his post.â¦
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON  SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hewlett-Packard Co. said today that Patricia Dunn will step down as chairwoman of the computer and printer maker in January amid a widening scandal involving a possibly illegal probe into media leaks. She will be succeeded by CEO Mark Hurd.
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Hunsaker also on list Patricia Dunn, the former chairman of HP, and four others are to face charges over The great HP Pretexting Fiasco.â¦
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  Chief  Executive Mark Hurd will testify to a House subcommittee on the  company's leak probe, HP said on Thursday, hours after the  panel's top Democrat said he should appear at a hearing.
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Hewlett-Packard's HPQ.N board met   on Sunday and plans to meet again on Monday, leaving open the   question of chairman Patricia Dunn's fate as she comes under   fire for her role in ordering a controversial board   investigation into media leaks.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman Patricia Dunn, who authorized an investigation of directors to determine the source of news leaks, said yesterday she would step down if the board asks her to.
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Former Hewlett-Packard Co.   Chairman Patricia Dunn is due to surrender to  authorities on Thursday afternoon on felony charges for spying  on reporters and company directors, the California attorney  general's office said.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. announced today that Patricia Dunn will be replaced as HP chairwoman in January by CEO Mark Hurd. The move follows a scandal related to leaks from the company's board of directors.
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HP's chairman will step down following the company's January 2007 board meeting as a result of the press leak investigation she launched and the techniques used, which both the state of California and the U.S. Government are investigating.
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PALO ALTO, California  - Hewlett-Packard Co.   Chairman Patricia Dunn resigned as a director on Friday as the   embattled computer maker unveiled new details of the boardroom   leak probe, including the role of chief executive Mark Hurd.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.'s CEO, Mark Hurd, and former board chairman Patricia Dunn this morning faced an angry congressional subcommittee looking into the legality of efforts by HP to plug boardroom leaks.
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By The Associated Press  Events leading up to the boardroom scandal at Hewlett-Packard Co. over the company's investigation of media leaks:  - Feb. 9, 2005: Board member Patricia Dunn announces that Chief Executive Carleton Fiorina has been fired.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard chief executive officer Mark Hurd blamedÂ the scandalÂ that has besieged his company on "a rogue investigation" that got out of hand, in an advance copy of his Congressional testimony released by a House Subcommittee on Wednesday. "How did such an abuse of privacy occur in a company renowned for its privacy? The end came to justify the means," Hurd wrote. "The investigation team became so focused on finding the source of the leaks that they lost sight of the privacy of reporters and others. They lost sight of the values HP has always represented." Former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn,Â forced to resignÂ Sept. 21 because of the scandal, defended in her testimony her decision toÂ investigate the leaksÂ of confidential board discussions to the news media. In her testimony, Dunn wrote that she knew investigators were obtaining the phone records of people it was investigating. Lawyers for HP and for an investigation firm carrying out the probe assured her the tactics were legal, she wrote. "I was fully convinced that HP would never engage in anything illegal," she wrote. "Given that attorneys were unambiguously overseeing the investigation ... reinforced my understanding that the investigations were being handled appropriately." Both are among severalÂ witnesses expected at a hearingÂ before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday in Washington. The committee is looking into the practice of "pretexting," or using false pretenses to gain access to confidential records. Investigators hired by HP to find the source of leaks engaged in pretexting to get hold of the phone records of directors, HP employees and reporters who cover the Palo Alto, California, technology company. Hurd, echoing comments he made in a news conference last Friday at HP's headquarters, said he was determined to get to the bottom of this episode and to try to restore HP's image. "I pledge that HP will take whatever steps are necessary to make sure nothing like this ever happens again," he wrote, "and that this company will regain not just its reputation ... but its pride." Although much of the criticism of the scandal surrounds the tactics used by the investigators, Dunn wrote in her testimony that equal consideration should be given to the leaks from within the company that damaged HP. HP's board was notorious for its leaks to news media and such disclosures made it difficult for the board to deal with important issues candidly, she wrote. Dunn explained that board deliberations on the selection of a replacement for former CEO Carly Fiorina in 2005 were leaked. She cited a BusinessWeek magazine story "disclosing opinions about various candidates and revealing details about ... the search process." "If you were a top CEO candidate, would you want to work for a company whose board could not be trusted to keep such information confidential? HP is very lucky to have been able to recruit Mark Hurd under such circumstances," Dunn wrote. "I wish fervently that none of this had ever happened," Dunn continued. "But boards have an unquestionable obligation to take steps to prevent [leaks]. That certain steps taken during the investigation went well beyond what was appropriate does not undermine the importance of the board's mission in this matter." Hurd also outlined several steps the company is taking internally to clarify its privacy policy for employees and to emphasize it in employee training programs.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd announced Friday that Chairman Patricia Dunn has resigned from HP's board because of the fallout from the company's probe of leaks to the media. But Hurd also confirmed that he approved a misinformation campaign as part of the probe.