[Dataloss] Personal data found along side road in Tate County MS

[Henry Brown]

 From Channel 24 news in Memphis TN
http://tinyurl.com/5b3yn7
Eyewitness News Everywhere Uncovers the personal information of 
hundreds, maybe even thousands of people - dumped along a Mid-South 
road.  We even found W-2 forms, tax forms with people's names, addresses 
and social security numbers.  Investigators in Tate County are trying to 
figure out how the papers got there.

[...]

Financial records, shipping order forms, and W-2's of former employees, 
personal information that Davis says was handled irresponsibly.  
"Stupidity on the person that threw it out on the road.  The people who 
disposed of these, there should be some legal action against them, but 
to me that's mismanagement," said Davis.

Many of the records are from Liberty Furniture, a North Carolina based 
company with Mid-South ties to Cromcraft - a furniture warehouse in Tate 
County.

"There all from North Carolina, how did they get here?  This is 
Mississippi.  We got some strong wind, but they ain't that strong," says 
Davis.

Even Cromcraft employees were shocked when we brought this to their 
attention.  Most of the W-2's are from the late 1970's and early 80's.  
And we're told Liberty Furniture went out of business more than twenty 
years ago.

While the company is no longer around, some of the people are.  And 
personal information like their social security number will never change 
- making them easy targets for identity theft. 

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