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Five years after tech giant Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) found itself at the center of a headline-grabbing pretexting scandal, DailyFinance has learned that federal authorities have expanded the scope of their prosecution to include other potential defendants.

In 2006, HP publicly disclosed that the company had deceptively obtained personal phone records through pretexting in an effort to find the source of a board-level corporate leak to the media. Pretexting — a federal offense — is the act of…

Feds Delay Sentencing in HP Pretexting Case Due to ‘Related Matter’ originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2011-08-30T11:30:00Z.

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