[Dataloss] dumpster diving in Cleveland oh

Henry Brown hbrown at knology.net
Wed Feb 27 21:41:25 UTC 2008


http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=83808

Channel 3 news found a garbage dumpster full of Clevelanders' personal 
information, including bank statements, credit reports, and tax returns.

Thousands of pages of sensitive documents were thrown out in a dumpster 
located behind a pizza shop at East 105th and Superior in Cleveland.

Confidential files were found on hundreds of people who applied for 
loans with a company called Union Mortgage, whose last known addresses 
were in Beachwood and Parma.

[...]
Ken Knabe, a lawyer from Lakewood, was shocked that we had his bank 
accounts, credit reports, tax returns and other personal information 
inclcuding his social security number.

[...]



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