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Re: Boxes Full Of Personal Information Found In The Trash
From: "Arsen Shirokov" <gmail () canadaballoons com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:47:05 -0400
Interesting.
...When Utica quit paying rent the storage company went through the legal process to be able to sell everything left behind...
Does this mean somebody could have bought the boxes, thus coming into legal possession of the information ? They wouldn't have been able to use the information for illegal purposes such as generating false identities, but there are so many other legal, privacy-violating things the purchaser could've done. Arsen On 8/16/07, MKEVHILL () aol com <MKEVHILL () aol com> wrote:
http://kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=133886 Private information, free for the taking is discovered in the trash. Bixby police say a company was willing to let anyone, including identity thieves, have access to thousands of social security numbers, bank records and more. Utica Title and Escrow went out of business and put about 200 boxes of personal papers in a storage unit. The storage company says they stopped paying their monthly rent, so the storage place had no choice but to get rid of everything. News On 6 crime reporter Lori Fullbright reports they had no idea the boxes contained a mother load of private information, including social security numbers, bank accounts and pay stubs. An anonymous tip led Bixby police to a stack of boxes in and a trash dumpster Tuesday night. Officers couldn't believe the gold mine of personal information they found. Authorities say an identity thief could've turned the information into millions. "It was amazing. I didn't understand how big it was until I got to the scene and saw for myself, looked through the boxes and saw how much stuff was in there," said Bixby Police Chief James Kite. The boxes belonged to Utica Title and Escrow and had been stored at a storage unit in Bixby. When Utica quit paying rent the storage company went through the legal process to be able to sell everything left behind, and whatever doesn't sell is trashed. No one wanted to buy boxes of paper so the boxes were thrown out. [...] Mike ________________________________ Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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Current thread:
- Boxes Full Of Personal Information Found In The Trash MKEVHILL (Aug 16)
- Re: Boxes Full Of Personal Information Found In The Trash Arsen Shirokov (Aug 16)
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- Re: Boxes Full Of Personal Information Found In The Trash MKEVHILL (Aug 16)
- Re: Boxes Full Of Personal Information Found In The Trash Tom Mahoney (Aug 16)