Back in June, HRB told you about a Philadelphia TV news anchor who was suspended by the station and under investigation by the FBI for hacking into the private e-mail of his former co-anchor. The anchor was fired, arrested and charged with e-mail snooping. Now he’s received his sentence for the crime.

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Tags: e-mail, sentence, snooping

A British nurse is in trouble with her hospital for using her work e-mail to sell things on eBay. What’s even worse is what she was selling:

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Tags: e-mail, eBay, knickers

As an HR pro, perhaps you’ve heard this from employees, “I wish I hadn’t sent that e-mail.”

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Tags: e-mail, gmail, Mail Goggles

If you ever find, as an HR pro, that you have to send an unfortunate e-mail to senior management about upcoming layoffs, you might want to double, triple and quadruple check the “to” field on the message.

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Tags: e-mail, layoffs, restructuring

When your Aunt Edna sends you the latest Internet urban legend, it’s easy to just roll your eyes and send her to one of several Web sites that debunk these myths. It’s another thing entirely when law enforcement officers do the same thing.

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Tags: e-mail, myth, police

Once upon a time, snooping on co-workers consisted of listening in on conversations, in person or on the phone, or intercepting written documents. Now, in the Internet age, you can add opening others’ e-mail messages to the list.

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Tags: e-mail, snooping, suspended