WASHINGTON: In a major security breach, records from a mobile phone used by US President-elect Barack Obama were improperly accessed, apparently by employees of the cell phone company, his transition team has said.

The team was notified by Verizon Wireless that it appears an employee improperly went through billing records for the phone which Obama no longer uses, its spokesman Robert Gibbs said. In an internal company e-mail, Verizon Wireless President and CEO Lowell McAdam said that "the personal wireless account of Obama had been accessed by employees not authorized to do so" in recent months.

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