[Dataloss] Texas AG accuses rehab center of dumping sensitive customer info

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5444381.html

The Texas attorney general filed court papers Thursday accusing a facility 
owned by a Pennsylvania-based physical therapy company of violating state 
identity theft protection laws.

Investigators in the attorney general's office say a rehabilitation center 
operated by Select Physical Therapy dumped about 4,000 pieces of sensitive 
customer information in garbage containers behind its facility in 
Levelland, about 30 miles west of Lubbock. The records included Social 
Security numbers, credit and debit card account numbers, names, addresses 
and telephone numbers.

Investigators say the garbage containers also contained "sensitive medical 
information" and copies of checks from large corporations that had 
contracted with the facility for employee physicals and drug tests.

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