Fired Over Obama

On Friday, a Verizon Wireless source told CNN that the Verizon employees connected to a breach of records from a cell phone used by President-elect Barack Obama have been fired. They will not say how many employees were fired because of the matter but they are saying that is considered to be "closed." Verizon first reported the breach on Thursday, but Obama's team was notified on Wednesday and the President-elect has reportedly not used that phone for months.

CNN explains: "The source also said the employees in question could not have read text messages, if Obama sent or received them, and would not have been able to access the content of any voice mail messages, although they would have been able to see whether any had been left... Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology said the employees probably had access to the dates and times of calls, the length of calls and the telephone numbers of those Obama spoke with."

Verizon says that they think this breach was just due to employees' curiosity, and it was only a simple voice flip-phone that was compromised so none of Obama's emails could have been accessed.

Verizon is also launching an investigation to see if the information was only shared between employees or to sources outside of the country. Do you think the White House is now going to switch to AT&T?

- Jessica I.