H-P Leak Inquiry Draws Scrutiny

Hewlett-Packard’s chairwoman, Patricia Dunn, ordered monitoring of its directors’ phones to determine the source of news leaks, prompting a furor in which one director quit and another rebuffed efforts to oust him.
The dispute was laid out in a document that Hewlett-Packard filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the filing, H-P said that it had been “informally contacted by the attorney general of the state of California requesting information concerning the processes employed in the investigations into the leaks” and said it plans to “cooperate fully.”