[Dataloss] MD: Army Documents With Personal Data Found in Trash Bin

lyger lyger at attrition.org
Tue Aug 21 11:53:09 UTC 2007


http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0807/449095.html

Police say boxes of documents containing personal information from the 
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research were supposed to be shredded but 
instead turned up last week in an off-base trash bin. A resident of a 
suburban Washington neighborhood near the Army medical research's campus 
found "numerous boxes" in the trash receptacle on Friday and alerted 
Montgomery County police.

Officers eventually returned the boxes to the research center.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Army Medical Command says the files were 
research study records.

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