[Dataloss] FL: Dumpster discovery: Personal files found

[Michael Hill, CITRMS]

http://www.wflxfox29.com/Global/story.asp?S=8416813

Update, WED 10 AM: BOCA RATON, FL (Fox29) - Fox 29 first brought you the story Tuesday: People's personal information tossed in the trash for anyone to take. We're now learning why and hearing from the victims. 

Dumpsters on Northwest 1st Avenue Boca Raton were found full of files and paperwork with personal information - names, addresses, drivers licenses and some social security numbers - all out in the open for the taking. 

"I'm taken aback; I really almost shaking. The fact that records could be around for all these years," describes victim Geraldine Spieler. 

Spieler says she used a Boca moving company 13 years ago. That moving company was sold and relocated. The building owner now cleaning out and tossing the files with information on employees, applicants and customers like Spieler. "It shouldn't have been available to anybody, but nobody has done anything." 

Building owner Charles Wheeler, former owner of the moving company, says, "In my heart I don't think it's going to be a problem. And I didn't realize until I heard from you guys that there was something sensitive in there. And it should have never been thrown out." 

"It's very frightening to think of that it was available, and that it could have happened," says Spieler.

The building owner says even though he didn't know sensitive information was being thrown out, the trash hauler was supposed to arrive before cleaning crews left Tuesday. 

In case you were wondering, all the documents have since been shredded.



Michael Hill 
Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist
www.idtheft101.com
404-216-3751


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