About a third of UK employees throw sensitive documents in the bin instead of shredding them, research suggests. The study also found almost three-quarters of workers felt their organisations could do more to protect their customers’ sensitive information. The data was compiled for National Identity Fraud Prevention Week. Identity fraud costs the UK more than…
Category: Paper
Police look into shredder bin theft
Linda Golz reports: Authorities are investigating the thefts this week of large bins used to store paper waiting to be shredded from three FirstMerit Bank branches in Streetsboro, Westlake and Elyria. […] FirstMerit spokesman Rob Townsend said just one of the stolen containers actually had customer and bank information in it. Townsend said he is…
Private info found in county Dumpster
Kari Cobham reports: Every 10 years, Flagler County’s building department purges its files. Only this time, county employees dumped about 15 boxes of applications, deeds, notices and plans in the trash — some of which included residents’ driver’s license and Social Security numbers. “We did wrong; it is a mistake we made,” County Administrator Craig…
MD bank dumps identities into trash
It’s a local bank you trust with your money and your personal information. But the M&T branch in Rodgers Forge didn’t shelter all of some peoples’ secrets. As ABC2 News Investigator Joce Sterman discovered, some of the documents that contain them didn’t get shredded, they got dumped. […] What the bank did was dump the…
NM: Dropped ID leads to crime ring arrests
From the thank-goodness-for-dumb-criminals dept. Amber Lee of KOAT in Albuquerque reports: Three men and two women are in custody on suspicion of running what police say was a identity theft ring. Investigators say what started as a purse snatching turned into something much bigger, when one of the suspects left behind an obvious clue. “In…
Personal documents found in Palm Springs dumpster
WPBF reports that personnel files containing “Social Security cards, tax papers, driver’s licenses, copies, peoples’ information, home IDs, everything” were found in a dumpster. Some of the documents had the CLP Skilled Trade Solutions logo on it — a company located right next to the dumpster. Many of the personnel files appeared to be from…