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InternetNews December 11, 2006 Roy Mark	Pretexting For Phone Records on The Block As one of its final acts in the wee hours of Saturday morning, the U.S. Congress approved legislation criminalizing the practice of pretexting for confidential telephone information.
InternetNews October 10, 2006 David Needle	HP Investigators Arraigned in California Three of the outside investigators Hewlett-Packard hired to probe leaks of confidential information in its boardroom appeared at an arraignment hearing here today at the Santa Clara County Superior Court.
InternetNews October 4, 2006 David Needle	Former HP Chairwoman Said to be Indicted HP's former lawyer and three investigators also to be charged.
InternetNews November 15, 2006 David Needle	Former HP Chairman Dunn Pleads Not Guilty Patricia Dunn pleads not guilty in the pretexting case that rocked HP.
InternetNews September 15, 2006 Roy Mark	Senate Nearing Pretexting Vote With an Oct. 6 adjournment date looming, U.S. Senate leaders are hammering out backroom compromise legislation to finalize a bill criminalizing making false or fraudulent statements to obtain phone records.
InternetNews October 5, 2006 Roy Mark	Dunn Arraignment Set for Thursday Former HP chairman heads to court one day after indictment.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Bill Would Protect Call Records From Snoopers New legislation would have FTC write rules for stricter security standards for consumers' personal phone records.
InternetNews September 26, 2006 Roy Mark	HP Pretexting Scandal Claims Two More Central figures in company's probe of boardroom leaks depart
InternetNews December 14, 2006 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Question Hurd's Option Action House panel probing HP's boardroom leaks scandal seeks answers to CEO Mark Hurd's options sales just days before the story became public.
InternetNews September 15, 2006 Roy Mark	Congress Wants HP Front And Center HP is guaranteed another embarrassing day in the sun over its pretexting scandal, this time with the cameras rolling and a national audience.
InternetNews November 17, 2006 Roy Mark	HP Spy Probe Gets an Upgrade SEC joins others investigating HP's role in boardroom leaks scandal.
InternetNews September 28, 2006 Roy Mark	Dunn Distances Herself from HP Probe Tactics Former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn plans to tell Congress today she only learned pretexting was used in a company investigation of boardroom media leaks until after the probe concluded.
InternetNews January 22, 2007 Roy Mark	Hurd: Options Exercise Was Legal HP chief denies any wrongdoing in letter to House committee probing the $1.37 million deal.
InternetNews September 25, 2006 Roy Mark	House Subpoenas Two HP Execs The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee issued subpoenas today for two HP executives and a private investigator to appear before Thursday's congressional hearing on HP's pretexting scandal.
InternetNews January 11, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Feds Charge HP Investigator A Colorado private investigator faces federal identity theft charges for his part in last year's Hewlett-Packard boardroom spy scandal.
InternetNews September 20, 2006 Roy Mark	Congress Calls Still More HP Officials Less than a day after HP submitted documents to a U.S. House investigative committee relating to the company's pretexting scandal, the panel wants even more HP officials to testify at a Sept. 28 hearing.
InternetNews September 29, 2006 Roy Mark	House Panel Rekindles Hope for Pretexting Bill House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman claims anti-pretexting legislation has a good chance to hit floor before Saturday adjournment.
InternetNews October 12, 2006 Ed Sutherland	HP Stock Sales Raise Eyebrows HP CEO Hurd made more than $1M in stock options sale the week before pretexting scandal went public.
InternetNews September 28, 2006 Ed Sutherland	HP Counsel Baskins Resigns, Refuses to Testify HP general counsel's resignation and decision not to testify come ahead of Congressional hearings.
InternetNews September 28, 2006 Roy Mark	HP Takes a Capitol Beating Hewlett-Packard took a Capitol Hill hammering Thursday over its handling of a boardroom media leaks probe gone awry.
InternetNews March 8, 2006 Roy Mark	Second Phone Data Privacy Bill Approved Targeting both telephone data brokers and telecoms, a House panel today approved legislation that bans the sale, lease or rental of confidential telephone records.
InternetNews March 2, 2006 Roy Mark	House Panel Rocks Phone Record Thieves The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation today aimed at curbing the sale of online black market telephone records.
InternetNews September 8, 2006 Roy Mark	The Murky World of Pretexting HP's actions may be legally questionable, but they sure were easy.
InternetNews October 4, 2006 Roy Mark	Pretexting Tactics Raised Red Flags Inside HP At least three members of the Hewlett-Packard team investigating boardroom media leaks expressed serious concerns over the pretexting tactics used by HP to obtain the personal call logs of board members and journalists.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Internet Pretexter Dials Up FTC Settlement Deal bars Information Search from pretexting and selling consumers' personal phone records.
InternetNews January 18, 2007 David Needle	Plea Deal Said to Be Offered in HP Pretexting Case Former HP chairman Patricia Dunn reportedly offered a deal that would drop felony charges.
InternetNews April 7, 2006 Roy Mark	House Subpoenas Phone Data Sites Web sites selling confidential consumer telephone data are refusing to comply with a U.S. House of Representatives' request for information, prompting the Energy and Commerce Committee to issue subpoenas to a dozen companies.
InternetNews March 9, 2006 Roy Mark	Phone Data Privacy Bill Heats Up in Senate Momentum for a telephone data privacy bill began building in the U.S. Senate Wednesday, with Sen. George Allen introducing legislation to outlaw the acquiring, selling or soliciting of someone else's phone records without their express consent.
InternetNews February 9, 2007 Roy Mark	House Delivers Package of Privacy Bills Members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced a package of bills Thursday evening aimed at identity theft, pretexting, data security and breach notifications.
InternetNews September 11, 2006 Roy Mark	FCC Questions AT&T Role in HP Scandal The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching a formal investigation into AT&T's role in disclosing the personal telephone records of HP board members and selected journalists to HP private investigators.
InternetNews September 29, 2006 Erin Joyce	HP Theater: No Smoking Guns, No Laws As political theater goes, the House Energy and Commerce Committee's hearing into spy tactics HP deployed to plug its boardroom leaks delivered all the elements, starting with outrage and dramatic gestures.
InternetNews February 2, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Say: Ban All Sales of Phone Records The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission suggest that new laws targeting online phone data brokers should also include carriers.
InternetNews February 6, 2006 Roy Mark	House Has Eyes on Black Market Data Sites The House Committee on Energy and Commerce Committee demands to know source of phone records for sale on Internet.
InternetNews March 14, 2007	Calif. Drops Felony Charges Against Dunn in HP Scandal Patricia Dunn is expected to plead to misdemeanor charges in connection with the HP media leak scandal.
InternetNews November 2, 2006 David Needle	HP CEO Responds to House Committee Mark Hurd gives written answers to House committee investigating the computer giant's leak investigation.
InternetNews February 9, 2006 Roy Mark	IM, E-Mail Identities Hot on The Net Online data brokers are selling far more than personal telephone records, including the actual names, addresses and phone numbers of instant messaging users and those registered with dating sites, such as Match.com.
InternetNews July 15, 2004 Roy Mark	Identity Theft Law Hits Back at 'Phishers' The Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act, signed into law by President Bush, mandates federal prison terms for using a false identity in the commission of a felony.
InternetNews October 3, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Hurd May Have Had Early Knowledge of Phone Records Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd recalls July 2005 meeting on leaks probe where obtaining personal call logs was discussed.
InternetNews January 25, 2007 Ed Sutherland	HP Gains Restraining Order Over Dell Spying Charge Countersuit by former executive Karl Kamb charges HP asked him to spy on rival's upcoming printer plans.
InternetNews September 11, 2006 David Needle	Feds, House Now Want HP Records While Hewlett-Packard continued an emergency board meeting today to discuss how to deal with its "pre-texting" scandal, the feds, and U.S. House members picked up their interest in the imbroglio involving how HP went about a media leak investigation.
InternetNews August 24, 2006 Roy Mark	AT&T After 'John Doe' Data Brokers New legal tactics aim to curb data brokers gaining unauthorized access to confidential phone records.
InternetNews January 19, 2006 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Move Against Phone Record Brokers New legislation targets the illegal selling of personal telephone record data.
InternetNews January 17, 2007 Roy Mark	FCC Pushing Carriers to Guard Your Data FCC chairman to push telephone carriers to better protect consumer personal data.
InternetNews April 3, 2007 Roy Mark	Phone Carriers Could Have Your Back The FCC approves rules that, among other things, require telephone carriers to obtain customers' consent to share data.
InternetNews November 25, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Verizon Staff Fired After Peek at Obama's Calls The Verizon Wireless employees who accessed President-elect Barack Obama's records without authorization have been fired, according to news reports.
InternetNews October 5, 2006 Clint Boulton	FTC Cracks Down on Internet Pretexter The Federal Trade Commission made it clear today that it won't tolerate any pretexting, barring an online business from advertising and selling consumers' phone and credit card account records to third parties.
InternetNews September 19, 2006 Needle & Joyce	More Called to Testify in HP Scandal A congressional committee has now asked HP's global security manager, Anthony Gentilucci, and private investigator Joe Depante, owner of Action Research Group in Melbourne, Fla., to testify at a hearing slated for Sept. 28 in Congress.
InternetNews September 8, 2006 Ed Sutherland	HP Board to Meet as Leak Scandal Widens Illegally obtained phone records of journalists the latest in the scandal.
InternetNews December 7, 2006 Ed Sutherland	'HP Not Enron' A.G. Says in Settlement Deal California's attorney general Bill Lockyer today announced a unique, $14.5 million settlement of its civil lawsuit related to the Hewlett-Packard leak probe investigation that resulted in federal indictments and Congressional hearings.
CFO November 1, 2006 McCafferty & Harris	Former Apple CFO Bitten by Backdating? CFOs of two different computer companies are indirectly accused of wrongdoing: backdating at Apple and pretexting at HP. Yet no one has said anything since.