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Boxes of documents including possible personal tax information showed up at a Marshall Co. recycling center, investigation underway

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Dissent

Laura Christmas reports from Alabama:

Monday morning when employees came to work at a Marshall County recycling center, they found boxes of documents that included people’s personal information in what looked like personal tax documents.

Some of the papers had a company name listed: Professional Tax & Accounting, which has three offices in Birmingham, Jasper, and Bessemer.

In this case, this may not be a human error incident.

We called the company. “We had a theft of documents that happened,” a company official said in a statement, “A break-in that was out of our control. We contacted the Birmingham Police Department, and we’re doing everything in our power to work with the proper authorities to hold the thief accountable.”

Read more on WHNT.


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