Obama’s cell records improperly accessed
President-elect Barack Obama’s cell phone billing records were improperly accessed by employees of Verizon Wireless.
Obama’s transition team was informed of the breach by Verizon Wireless representatives on Wednesday, team spokesman Robert Gibbs told the news agency.
The phone, a voice flip-phone with no e-mail access, is no longer active or being used by Obama, the report said. Lists of phone numbers and calls made by Obama could have been accessed, but “nobody was monitoring voicemail,” Gibbs is quoted as saying.
Verizon Wireless has notified federal law enforcement authorities, Verizon Wireless President and Chief Executive Lowell McAdam wrote in an internal company e-mail distributed on Wednesday that CNN obtained. The Secret Service has been informed, Gibbs said.
Employees who viewed the records without authorization could be fired, McAdam said in the e-mail.
This is the latest in a string of technology-related security incidents to hit this election season. Earlier this month, Newsweek reported that PCs used by the campaigns of Obama and former Republican presidential candidate John McCain were compromised last summer.
In September, McCain’s running mate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin had her Yahoo e-mail account broken into. And back in April, someone exploited a weakness in the Web site for Obama’s campaign and redirected some visitors to then-Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s site.
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