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Personal data found along side road in Tate County MS
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:31:42 -0500
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. [...] _______________________________________________ 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
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