BreachExchange mailing list archives

dumpster diving in Cleveland oh


From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:41:25 -0600

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=83808

Channel 3 news found a garbage dumpster full of Clevelanders' personal 
information, including bank statements, credit reports, and tax returns.

Thousands of pages of sensitive documents were thrown out in a dumpster 
located behind a pizza shop at East 105th and Superior in Cleveland.

Confidential files were found on hundreds of people who applied for 
loans with a company called Union Mortgage, whose last known addresses 
were in Beachwood and Parma.

[...]
Ken Knabe, a lawyer from Lakewood, was shocked that we had his bank 
accounts, credit reports, tax returns and other personal information 
inclcuding his social security number.

[...]

_______________________________________________
Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org)
http://attrition.org/dataloss

Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring
solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your
traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out!
http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml


Current thread: