After an internal inquiry into how such a leak could have occurred, the company discovered that a news organization had hacked into dark pages on its website where earnings reports were routinely posted and formatted prior to publication.
The leak of a string of highly sensitive internal documents from inside the Vatican's Secretariat of State, including personal letters to Pope Benedict XVI, are an evident embarrassment to the pope, our correspondent says.
Did you just get caught flat-footed by a leak before you had a chance to iron out some details, or are we seeing deeper internal issues working themselves out in public here?