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  • HP execs: Scandal was ethical wake-up call

    Hewlett-Packard's top ethics and privacy executives on Thursday said a now infamous investigation into boardroom media leaks was a "wake-up call" that prompted a shakeup in the company's operations.

  • HP's Dunn says others supervised probe

    Former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn said in congressional testimony released Wednesday in the US that she relied on executives at the company to advise her on the leak probe and did not consider herself the project's supervisor.

  • HP chairman resigns, CEO confirms knowledge of probe

    Hoping to slow a growing storm of criticism over a controversial leak probe, Hewlett-Packard said last Friday in the US that Patricia Dunn would step down immediately as chairman and board member, to be replaced by CEO Mark Hurd.

  • HP settles with California in spy scandal

    The California Attorney General's Office said on Thursday in the US that Hewlett-Packard will pay US$14.5 million to settle civil charges related to the company's now infamous spy scandal.

  • HP board mum on Dunn's fate

    Hewlett-Packard's board of directors met for several hours Sunday but adjourned without announcing a decision on the fate of Chairman Patricia Dunn, who is facing calls to resign in the wake of a probe of board members and journalists that involved personal phone records.

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