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Ca: Victoria Police investigating after employee records tossed in cardboard bin

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Dissent

CTV reports:

Police are investigating a possible privacy breach after a Victoria sporting goods business tossed boxes upon boxes of personal information in a downtown cardboard recycling bin.

Six boxes, which contained sensitive private information including social insurance numbers and bank and health records, were discovered by a CTV employee in the bin behind Sports Traders on Pembroke Street Wednesday night.

Read more on CTV Vancouver.


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