CNN:
Verizon Wireless has fired employees connected to a breach of records from a cell phone used by President-elect Barack Obama this year, a Verizon source said Friday.The source would not say how many people were terminated but said “we now consider this matter closed.”
Verizon reported the breach Thursday, and Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said the transition team had been notified Wednesday. Gibbs said the president-elect no longer uses that phone, which has been inactive for months.
The fired employees were hired “to take care of customers,” the Verizon source said, and were not authorized to access customer records unless asked to do so by the customer.
The source also said the employees in question could not have read text messages, if Obama sent or received them, and would not have been able to access the content of any voice mail messages, although they would have been able to see whether any had been left.
“This was some employees’ idle curiosity,” the source said, adding that records of no other customers of note were breached.
Wow, the speed at which a private company moves, eh?
Gee. I can’t wait until universal healthcare! You…?
(h/t Dan)
Comment by SarahW on 11/23 @ 11:06 am #
Strickland ought to be recalled. If I were an Ohioan, I’d be calling for his head.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/23 @ 11:07 am #
Will what happens to the Democrat guy what hacked Governor Palin’s email account meet with an approving nod from Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs is what I wonder.
Comment by Darleen on 11/23 @ 11:14 am #
It’s good to be The King.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/23 @ 11:16 am #
You’d think they’d also call for the termination of the Ohio gubmint folks that misused their access to try and smear Joe the plumber…
I mean, Christa Freeland of the Financial Times once stated that scndal publicity was more apt to be afforded to Republicans; more reporters would be dispached and dig up info in an effort to correct the hypocrisy…
And, you know, O! and his cadre couldn’t possibly be guilty of that…
Better for them to avoide tha appearance, and call for Strickland to fire them all…
Comment by meya on 11/23 @ 11:23 am #
“Will what happens to the Democrat guy what hacked Governor Palin’s email account meet with an approving nod from Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs is what I wonder.”
He’s been charged with a felony. If these phone records were sold, that could be a crime too. Dubya signed a law last year protecting phone records. Alas not your right to access youtube.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/23 @ 11:29 am #
He’s been charged but his lawyer won a delay for some reason is all I know.
Comment by meya on 11/23 @ 11:35 am #
“If these phone records were sold, that could be a crime too.”
That was incorrect. Sold or transferred. Punished by up to 10 years in jail. Serious shit. That Palin hacker’s potential punishment is lower, potentially just a misdemeanor.
Comment by mojo on 11/23 @ 11:38 am #
The second half of the message has been delivered…
Did you get all that?
Comment by Dr. Donald Blake on 11/23 @ 11:56 am #
“no other customers of note“???
Comment by Mossberg500 on 11/23 @ 12:13 pm #
Isn’t it funny that Helen Jones-Kelley only got suspended a month for accessing JTP’s records? Phone records seem a tad bit innocuous in comparison. YMMV.
Comment by B Moe on 11/23 @ 12:19 pm #
Maybe that is why the media and the FEC are so afraid to look into Obama’s campaign fund credit card records, they are afraid of getting fired.
Comment by McGehee on 11/23 @ 12:57 pm #
Good, but could be more accurate. Try:
Comment by Ric Locke on 11/23 @ 1:06 pm #
Just stay away from the fastener department at the hardware store.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Seth Williams on 11/23 @ 2:26 pm #
As well they should have been fired, if there’s no more to the story (such as a legitimate customer service reason, error, etc). That’s not the scandal here; the scandal is that folks on the right, and “people of no note” don’t seem to get the same consideration. It’s chilling, really.
Good to be the king, indeed.
Comment by Historical Stylings of Joey Hairplugs on 11/23 @ 2:43 pm #
No one cares about my phone records. I called the French so they’d help us kick Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon…oh wait! Got LSD?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/24 @ 7:34 am #
Nah, he thinks of himself more as Joshua. I don’t think you can be both.
And in the promised land,
it’s gonna be so grand;
we’ll have our fill from the grill,
as much as we can stand!
It’ll be so great!
Oh, we can hardly wait!
’cause we’re going to the promised land!
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