In the wake of the Hewlett-Packard scandal in which the company admitted it obtained phone records of its board members and business journalists to determine the source of an information leak, MarketWatch columnist Herb Greenberg noted that he never found out who illegally obtained his phone records two years ago.
Greenberg wrote, “I never knew with absolute certainty which company was responsible for the breach, but the only thing any of the people whose records were violated had in common was that we all had been snooping (and in my case, writing about) Allied Capital.
“I have no evidence that Allied Capital was behind the offense.
“And unlike Hewlett Packard officials, who acknowledged the break-in and apologized to the reporters, Allied officials never had the courtesy to respond to my phone and e-mail inquiries asking them about the situation. They didn’t even contact me after my story on the crime was printed.”
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Who ripped off Herb's phone records?
September 11, 2006
In the wake of the Hewlett-Packard scandal in which the company admitted it obtained phone records of its board members and business journalists to determine the source of an information leak, MarketWatch columnist Herb Greenberg noted that he never found out who illegally obtained his phone records two years ago.
Greenberg wrote, “I never knew with absolute certainty which company was responsible for the breach, but the only thing any of the people whose records were violated had in common was that we all had been snooping (and in my case, writing about) Allied Capital.
“I have no evidence that Allied Capital was behind the offense.
“And unlike Hewlett Packard officials, who acknowledged the break-in and apologized to the reporters, Allied officials never had the courtesy to respond to my phone and e-mail inquiries asking them about the situation. They didn’t even contact me after my story on the crime was printed.”
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