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HP_Spy_Timeline.sPubDate = "10/4/2006 11:05:59 PM GMT";
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HP_Spy_Timeline.appHeader = "timeline|HP leak probe";
HP_Spy_Timeline.appDeck = "Events in Hewlett-Packard's spying scandal";
HP_Spy_Timeline.appFooter = "Source: Associated Press";
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HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Jan. 24","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "The Wall Street Journal publishes a front-page story based on anonymous sources that the HP board is dissatisfied with Chief Executive Carly Fiorina and considered a management reorganization during a private retreat.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Feb. 9","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = " Board member Patricia Dunn announces that Fiorina has been fired.
Dunn assumes role as nonexecutive chairwoman and oversees the hunt for Fiorina’s successor.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","March 29, 2005","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "Dunn announces that Mark Hurd has been hired as the new CEO.
Dunn retains the chairwoman title.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","May 2005","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "At Dunn’s urging, HP launches an investigation to root out the sources of numerous boardroom leaks.
Dunn contacts Ronald DeLia and his investigations firm, Security Outsourcing Solutions Inc.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","July 22, 2005","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "SOS reports its findings at a meeting attended by several HP executives and briefly by Hurd.
A short time later, the investigation ends without unmasking the source of the leaks.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","2006","","","","", "sub", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Jan. 23","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "CNet Network Inc.’s News.com publishes a story quoting an anonymous HP source who described a confidential gathering of HP directors. Although the source doesn’t say anything inflammatory, the leak angers Dunn.
Investigation resumes.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Jan. 29","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "Someone creates an online account in the name of HP board member and noted Silicon Valley venture capitalist Thomas Perkins and orders his home phone records from AT&T Inc.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","March","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "Investigations team led by Kevin Hunsaker, HP’s chief ethics officer, briefed Dunn, Baskins and Hurd on its findings and identified the source of the leak.
It also prepared a written report that outlined the techniques — including “pretexting,” the practice of impersonating a person in order to access their private information.
Hurd said he didn’t read the report.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","May 18","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "During a board meeting, Dunn identifies the leaker as George Keyworth II, the longest-serving HP director.
The board asks Keyworth to resign, but he refuses.
Perkins gets angry, resigns and storms out of the meeting.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","May 22","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "HP files a routine document with the Securities and Exchange Commission to notify investors that Perkins has resigned.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","June, July ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "Perkins and his attorney demand information from HP about the methods used to identify Keyworth as a leaker.
Perkins begins asking HP to submit details of his resignation — and the probe into his home phone numbers — to the SEC.
HP’s outside counsel, Larry Sonsini, assures Perkins in an e-mail that the investigation “was well done and within legal limits.”";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Aug. 16","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "Investigators for California’s attorney general and the California Highway Patrol Computer Crimes Investigation Unit meet with AT&T executives. AT&T confirms that it’s conducting an internal review of pretexting.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Aug. 31","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "The State of California issues a search warrant for Cox Communications Inc., which owns the Internet address where Perkins’ phone records were sent.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 6","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "HP reports to the SEC that it used pretexting to get phone records of “HP directors and individuals outside of HP.”";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 7","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "California Attorney General Bill Lockyer announces that the pretexting broke two state laws governing identity theft and illegal access to computer records, and that his office is investigating whether criminal charges were warranted.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 8","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "Dunn calls journalists who were targeted by pretexters to apologize, but defends the right of the company to determine the source of the leaks.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 11","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "A House committee requests documents related to the leak investigation as part of its ongoing probe of pretexting.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco and the FBI confirm they are conducting their own probe of HP’s conduct.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 12","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "HP announces that Dunn will step down as chairwoman in January 2007 and be replaced by Hurd.
Lockyer says he has enough evidence to indict HP insiders and contractors.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 15","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "A shareholder lawsuit is filed in a California state court accusing the top HP brass of breaching their duties.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 21","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "News reports link Hurd to a plot to dupe a reporter by sending bogus e-mail news tips. HP’s stock price dips more than 5 percent.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 22","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "Dunn resigns.
Hurd becomes chairman.
HP reveals identities of other key employees involved in the probe: Kevin Hunsaker, the company’s chief ethics officer who directed the investigation; Tony Gentilucci and Vincent Nye of its Global Security team; and Fred Adler of its IT security team.
Company reveals investigators also tailed some targets and sent an e-mail with embedded tracking technology to a reporter.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 25","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "Gentilucci, manager of HP’s global investigations unit in Boston, voluntarily resigns.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 26","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "Hunsaker leaves the company.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 28","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "HP announces the resignation of General Counsel Ann Baskins, who helped oversee the leaks probe.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee holds hearing into the scandal.";
HP_Spy_Timeline[i++] = new Array("","Oct. 4","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
HP_Spy_Timeline[i-1].body = "Calif. attorney general seeks indictment of ex-chairwoman Patricia Dunn, 4 others.
CEO Mark Hurd spared.";
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