Seeking Leakers, H.P. Spied on Journalists
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The targets included nine journalists who have covered Hewlett-Packard, including one from The Times.
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Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd knew of plans for a disinformation campaign designed to find the source ofÂ leaks from boardroom discussions, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
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By HERB JACKSON, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT  An aide to then-Rep. Bob Menendez tried to get reporters to investigate former Florida Rep. Mark Foley in 2005 after receiving several e-mails Foley had written to a former House page, the House ethics committee disclosed Friday.
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(110 sec.) An update on the major players in the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal.
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Internal documents say HP has pretexted before and that its investigators trailed a reporter while on vacation.
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Hewlett-Packard conducted feasibility studies on planting spies in news bureaus for two major publications as part of its investigation of news leaks.
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(InfoWorld) - An attorney hired by Hewlett-Packard to investigate the conduct of HP and outside investigators has provided new details of his firm's investigation ofÂ news leaks from the HP board. Mike Holston, a partner in Morgan, Lewis & Bockius was hired Sept. 8 to conduct an independent investigation of the scandal and reports directly to HP Chief Executive Officer and President Mark Hurd. Morgan Lewis has reviewed some of the approximately 1 million pages of documents it received from HP and outside investigators hired by HP to trace the news leaks. It determined that HP Board Chairman Patricia Dunn authorized two separate investigations: one to probe leaks in 2005 and a second in 2006. The Morgan Lewis probe found that HP hired in 2005 Security Outsourcing Services (SOS), of Needham, Massachusetts, a private security firm, to probe the first series of leaks. This is the first official confirmation that HP hired that firm, even though it had been identified in several recent news stories. Two months into SOS's probe, HP's Global Security division also joined the investigation. The investigation concluded in July 2005 without being able to identify the source of those leaks. When CNet NetworksÂ reported Jan 23, 2006, on the details of a private board meeting, HP launched a second investigation with the help of SOS and HP Global Security. Dunn, Hurd, HP's General Counsel Ann Baskins, and Jim Fairbaugh, chief of Global Security, approved the second investigation. Dunn and Baskins were kept up to date on the course of the investigation over the next three months, Holston said. "It is now clear that the investigation included tactics that ranged from the review of HPâs internal e-mails and instant messages, to the physical surveillance of an HP Board member and at least one journalist, to the "pretexting" of telephone call information of board members, HP employees, and journalists," he said, adding that SOS's legal counsel informed HP that SOS's investigative techniques were legal. The investigators presented a draft report to HP in March 2006 identifying the source of the board leaks and detailing some of their investigative methods, including pretexting, which is obtaining access to private phone records under false pretenses. HP sent a copy of the report to its outside legal counsel and the report was disclosed at a May 18 board meeting. In a separate HP filing Sept. 6 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company disclosed that director George Keyworth was the source. While he acknowledged his role, Keyworth refused to resign at that May board meeting. HeÂ eventually resignedÂ Sept. 12. Holston went on to say that Tony Gentilucci, another member of HP's Global Security division and a member of the investigative team, turned over the Social Security number of an HP employee to SOS. SOS then turned that and other Social Security numbers over to Action Research Group, another private investigative firm, which used the numbers to help gain unauthorized access to private phone records. This is also the first acknowledgement that Action Research, of Melbourne, Florida, was involved, although it had been identified in news reports. Disclosing personal employee information is a violation of HP policy, and could result in Mr. Gentilucci's dismissal, said a source inside the company who declined to be identified. Holston also disclosed that investigators attempted to send an e-mail to a CNet reporter from a fictitious disgruntled HP employee that contained a hidden attachment, called a "tracer," that would track who the reporter contacted about the tip so as to identify her sources. HP did not disclose the identity of the reporter Friday, but she was identified in a Sept. 21 Washington Post article as Dawn Kawamoto. But Holston said it could not be determined whether the tracer was ever activated. Hurd acknowledged in his remarks that heÂ approved the fake e-mail schemeÂ but said he did not know it involved use of the tracer. And although another scheme to send spies into the San Francisco offices of CNet and The Wall Street Journal posing as clerical or janitorial workers was considered, there was no indication it was ever carried out, Holston said.
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Documents offer new details of HP's leak hunt, including info Patricia Dunn shared with private investigators.
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Three prominent journalists testified Monday that Bush administration officials volunteered leaks about a CIA operative, as I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's attorneys sought to suggest he was not responsible for exposing her.
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WASHINGTON -- Five private investigators who allegedly served as the foot soldiers in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s efforts to identify the source of a boardroom leak have been ordered to testify at Thursday's congressional hearing on the affair.
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The Justice Department has launched a probe into Hewlett-Packard's methods to uncover the source of press leaks, the company has disclosed. The state of California and the House Commerce Committee are also investigating, it said.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hewlett-Packard Co. officials said Saturday that the company improperly accessed phone records of a corporate spokesman during its investigation into unauthorized leaks to the press.
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The personal phone records of two News.com reporters were targeted prior to the publishing of story that detailed boardroom planning.
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Patricia Dunn had launched an investigation into a media leaks that resulted in a firestorm of controversy and potential lawsuits.
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By Stephen Foley in New York  Hewlett-Packard is facing a federal investigation into whether the company broke the law when the computer manufacturer obtained directors' and journalists' phone records as part of its attempt to hunt down the source of boardroom leaks.
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The CIA leak trial turned a spotlight on the shifting ground rules for reporters and their editors who more than ever must balance their pursuit of the news with a heightened risk of landing in court.
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Hacked off The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) has blasted Hewlett-Packard after it was revealed that a private investigator was hired to obtain phone records of conversations between journalists and HP board members.â¦