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TX: Apartment complex residents private files found in dumpster

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Dissent

Damall Keith reports:

It was thrown away like trash, folders full of personal information. What do you think? Is your social security number, salary and employment information trash? One company now has some explaining to do after private files were found in a dumpster. ”Copies of drivers license, copies of social security cards, banking information,” explains Zachary Hailey as he lists all of the personal information on documents he says he found in a dumpster at the Wilcox Apartments on 610.

Hailey says the folders full of personal information were “filed” right there in the trash bin at the Wilcox Apartments. “Two boxes. I have 150 maybe 200 folders,” adds Hailey.

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