HP scandal deepens

The investigators got the records by impersonating journalists from the Wall Street Journal, CNET.com and other news organizations in a practice known as “pretexting,” the company said. HP spokesman Michael Moeller said that “there are other journalists” whose records were improperly accessed, but would not say how many others were involved.

C|net and Wall Street Journal were the two publications that had been spyed on. The investigators searched telephone records to find out that the HP employees had been in contact with them. I personally find this unbelievable, and have lost all respect for HPs top management. It just seems odd to me, that the information gained from these ‘sources’ seemed like that big of a deal.