The HP spying scandal is now a criminal case!
The California Attorney General filed felony charges on Patricia Dunn and four others stemming from an
illegal investigation into Hewlett-Packard's boardroom leaks. Kevin
Hunsaker, former HP senior attorney and ethics director, was charged
with three outside investigators, Matthew DePante, Bryan Wagner, and
Ronald DeLia. Each person is facing four felony charges –
unauthorized access to computer data, identity theft, the use of
false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information, and
conspiracy charges. Mark Hurd, current Chief Executive Officer of
HP, is not being charged at this time.
Hunsaker was the leader of the team
that was used by Dunn to find the media leaks. According to official
documents, Hunsaker was fully aware that deception was used to gather
information. DeLia, the operator of Security Outsourcing Solutions,
was told to work alongside Dunn during the investigation.
Speculation about possible charges have
been circulating for several weeks now. Dunn resigned after the
scandal broke several weeks ago. Her attorney recently said, “These
charges are being brought against the wrong person at the wrong time
and for the wrong reasons.” Several other high ranking HP officials have also been publically humiliated because of the case.
The controversy started after it was
unveiled that HP hired a company who used pretexting – a practice
that involves obtaining phone records through deception – while
trying to discover who was leaking boardroom information to the
media.
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