News: Obama's Cell Phone Record Breached
Submitted by oversee on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 00:32
According to Obama's transition team, records of a cell phone previously owned by Presidet-elect Barack Obama were breached. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said that an employee of the company (Verizon Wireless) improperly looked into the billing records for the phone which is not currently used by Obama. The e-mail by the company's President and CEO Lowell McAdam, mentions that the phone in question has been inactive for several months and none of Obama's e-mail were accessed. Read more
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