HP Chairman Patricia Dunn to resign
{{date|September 13, 2006}}

[[w: Hewlett-Packard|Hewlett-Packard]]  has announced that the chairman of the company's board, [[w:Patricia Dunn|Patricia Dunn]] will resign in January, following revelations that private investigators hired by the board to discover the source of media leaks had used false identities to obtain telephone records from service providers.

Chief Executive [[w: Mark Hurd|Mark Hurd]] will replace Dunn as chairman, though she will continue to remain a director on the board.

[[w: Bill Lockyer|Bill Lockyer]], California's Attorney General has indicated that company insiders are likely to face criminal charges.

George A. Keyworth II, a board member, accused of leaking information said he resigned only after Dunn agreed she would give up her post.

Those hired by the investigation company pretended to be others, a practice known as [[w: pretexting|pretexting]] to obtain the phone logs of board members and journalists.

== Sources ==

*{{source
|url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/284868_hp13.html
|title=HP's chairwoman agrees to step down
|author=Jordan Robertson
|pub=Seattle post-intelligencer
|date= September 13, 2006 }}

*{{source
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/technology/13hewlett.html?hp&ex=1158120000&en=bbba696fb6b28db4&ei=5094&partner=homepage
|title=Spying Uproar Causes Shuffle in Boardroom
|author=Damon Darlin and Matt Ritchel
|pub=The New York Times
|date=September 13, 2006}}

*{{source
|url= http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/12/AR2006091201433.html
|title= California official has enough to indict in HP case
|author= Philipp Gollner
|pub=Washington post
|date= September 12, 2006 }}

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Hewlett-Packard  has announced that the chairman of the company's board, Patricia Dunn will resign in January, following revelations that private investigators hired by the board to discover the source of media leaks had used false identities to obtain telephone records from service providers.

Chief Executive Mark Hurd will replace Dunn as chairman, though she will continue to remain a director on the board.

Bill Lockyer, California's Attorney General has indicated that company insiders are likely to face criminal charges.

George A. Keyworth II, a board member, accused of leaking information said he resigned only after Dunn agreed she would give up her post.

Those hired by the investigation company pretended to be others, a practice known as pretexting to obtain the phone logs of board members and journalists.

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