Omar Villafranca reports that a winning $60 storage unit auction bid yielded personal and medical information on hundreds of people:
But the storage unit also had boxes of sensitive information, including copies of drivers licenses and Social Security cards, credit union reports and financial reports.
The letters were addressed to a closed-down nursing facility.
The documents also contained medical information, such as what prescription people were taking, urology reports, psychiatric evaluations, seizure reports and even job applications from potential workers. Social Security numbers were easily visible on the paperwork.
Much of the information belonged to mentally disabled children. A few files included pictures of the children. The information was from 1998 to 2008.
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