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face="Times New Roman" size=3>ATLANTA (MyFOX Atlanta) – Thousands of documents
loaded with social security numbers and other personal information were thrown
out Friday, left in dumpsters that anyone could get to.<BR><BR>"I thought, wow,
that's a lot of cardboard. And then I said, wait a minute, those look like
documents," said George Altman.<BR><BR>Altman works at the Northlake office park
where the documents were dumped. Altman said it took him about 10 seconds
to realize there was a problem.</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>"As you see,
this thing is full of things like this, where there's a person's photo on here.
You open it up and there's a social security readily available," said
Altman.<BR><BR>The documents listed dates of birth, addresses and even medical
records in almost every file.<BR><BR>No one was at the law office Friday
afternoon where the case files originated. Late Friday, the personal
injury lawyer who represented the clients in the files said the cases were
closed so he threw the documents out. He later admitted it was a mistake
to dump them.<BR><BR>"These are old records, they're 10 years old, but I still
live in the same house I had 10 or 15 years ago and my social security number
hasn't changed," said Altman.<BR><BR>The files filled up parts of three
dumpsters and the personal information of literally thousands of people were
there for anyone to take. The information belonged to people not just from
the Atlanta area, but from everywhere from Lula to Jackson.<BR><BR>"I am
completely stunned by this and I can't believe this is still happening in
today's age, when we're so aware of identity theft," said Altman.
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