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AU: Recruitment agency accused of dumping thousands of documents containing jobseeker’s confidential data in a skip bin outside recently closed store

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Dissent

Sinead MacLaughlin reports:

A recruitment agency has been discovered allegedly dumping thousands of jobseekers confidential details in a skip out the back of their offices.

Pages of data from Sarina Russo clients were found by a contractor on Thursday night in an unlocked skip bin and in some nearby boxes behind their recently closed store in Narre Warren, Melbourne.

The pages detailed clients bank details, phone numbers, addresses, employment and education records.

Read more on Daily Mail.

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