Patricia Dunn, HP Chairman Fired for Snooping, Dies at 58

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Patricia Dunn, the onetime Hewlett-Packard Co. chairman fired in 2006 for overseeing a company investigation that relied on detectives posing as reporters to obtain phone records, has died. She was 58.

She died yesterday at her home in Orinda, California, according to a statement released by her family. The cause was ovarian cancer, one of three types of cancer she battled since 2002.