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Phone company apologises for Obama security breach
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:20:20 -0600 (CST)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/21/obama-cell-phone By Ewen MacAskill guardian.co.uk November 21, 2008 Verizon, one of the biggest telephone companies in the US, today apologised to the president-elect, Barack Obama, over a security breach involving his phone bill records. Lowell McAdam, the president of Verizon, issued a statement saying: "This week we learned that a number of Verizon Wireless employees have, without authorisation, accessed and viewed President-elect Barack Obama's personal cell phone account." All staff who accessed the account, whether authorised or not, have been put on immediate paid leave pending an inquiry. Verizon and Obama's team said that the cell phone had not been active for months. [...] _______________________________________________ Subscribe to the InfoSec News RSS Feed http://www.infosecnews.org/isn.rss
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