Hewlett-Packard is still working to put 2006’s spying scandal behind them, announcing that it has reached a settlement with four journalists over allegations the company engaged in corporate espionage to ferret out a leak in its board room.
Hewlett-Packard has already paid a $14.5 million settlement in the affair, although the company admitted no wrongdoing over allegations investigators in its employ used “pretexting”—essentially, social engineering—to obtain private phone records of board members and journalists as it tried to stop leaks to the press.
