pretexted

The records of journalists were similarly hacked (or, "pretexted," as the telecom lexicon goes).

A Playbook for the HP Hearings 2007

More protests behind the scenes by Perkins led to the discovery that an investigator contracted by the initial outside firm that Dunn hired had "pretexted" phone companies to obtain call records on the personal cell and home phones of other directors, according to a filing this week by HP with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Over And Dunn HP Better Off Without Dunn 2006

More protests behind the scenes by Perkins led to the discovery that an investigator contracted by the initial outside firm that Dunn hired had "pretexted" phone companies to obtain call records on the personal cell and home phones of other directors, according to a filing this week by HP with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

HP Scandal Widens Plot Thickens At Hewlett-Packard 2006

The leaders of the Ennahda Movement pretexted that the veiled women had exploited the incident to say: look, they are the extremists and we are the moderates.

Raghida Dergham: The West's Imprudent Investment in Islamist Movements Raghida Dergham 2012

The leaders of the Ennahda Movement pretexted that the veiled women had exploited the incident to say: look, they are the extremists and we are the moderates.

Raghida Dergham: The West's Imprudent Investment in Islamist Movements Raghida Dergham 2012

The records of journalists were similarly hacked (or, “pretexted,” as the telecom lexicon goes).

A Playbook for the HP Hearings 2007

Following the resignation of director Thomas Perkins, Sonsini acknowledged to Perkins that his personal phone records had been pretexted, arguing that HP's investigators had acted legally in acquiring them.

Hurd, Dunn, Clear Their Throats Chris Kraeuter 2006

He does not believe that the average person can understand the issue, therefore he is justified in using scare tactics, however thinly pretexted.

Day Four – Al Gore « Climate Audit 2006

Hewlett-Packard's ousted chairwoman Patricia Dunn says she, too, was pretexted.

CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2006 2006

Then on Thursday the office contacted her again to say that AT&T; had confirmed that her records had been pretexted and that the party who obtained her records fraudulently provided AT&T; with the last four digits of her husband's Social Security number.

HP Dragnet Grabbed 9 Reporters 2006