The investigators used sub-contractors who engaged in “pretexting”: the use of false pretences to obtain personal information—in this case, the telephone records of board members and nine journalists.
消息即出,外界反映激烈。調查公司僱傭的人員使用了借用虛假理由獲取個人信息的 “假託”手段(pretexting),即在該事件中獲得董事會成員及九名記者的電話記錄。