Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/hewlett-packard-chairman-steps-down-amid-media-leaks-scandal Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Hewlett-Packard's chairman, Patricia Dunn, announced Tuesday that she would step down from the computer company's board in January after apologizing for her use of undercover investigators to discover the source of media leaks among other board members. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. SPENCER MICHELS: The Hewlett-Packard scandal has hit like a summer storm in the tranquil Silicon Valley — a storm that may well bring criminal indictments against some of the company's officials or staff.Today, it cost the H.P. chair her job. She announced she will step down in January. The change at the top came at the same time that the local U.S. attorney and a House congressional committee decided to launch their own investigations into H.P.'s alleged use of illegal methods to trace leaks of confidential board deliberations to the press.California Attorney General Bill Lockyer says his investigation has determined serious violations of the law. BILL LOCKYER, California Attorney General: Crimes have been committed. People's identity was taken falsely. It's a crime. People accessed computer records that have personal information. That's a crime in California. SPENCER MICHELS: What Lockyer is looking into are allegations that H.P. hired investigators who impersonated board members and reporters to get phone records, so the company could find out who on the board was leaking to the media. And the probe has already borne some results. BILL LOCKYER: We currently have sufficient evidence to indict people, both within Hewlett-Packard, as well as contractors on the outside.