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Thread #68747   Message #1959317
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
06-Feb-07 - 02:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
So much for all of the security measures taken by individuals to protect themselves, and from the credit reporting agencies to protect the info. Yahoos like this group get it and aren't very careful. Sheesh!



More found documents to be destroyed
STAR-TELEGRAM

HURST [TX]— More documents are scheduled to be burned Tuesday after boxes of the paperwork which contained identity information were found Monday discarded in a trash bin, police said.

Police were notified about the paperwork found in the 700 block of Texas 10. The documents were traced to Metro Credit Services, which went out of businesses several weeks ago and left the documents in an office, police said. "The business was a collection agency and they would receive documents with all this information on them," said Hurst police Sgt. Craig Teague.

The owner of the office hired workers to clean out the office and threw out the documents not knowing they had personal information, police said.

Authorities spent about two hours Monday burning the documents, which contained driver's license numbers, residents' date-of-births and social security numbers. Officials plan to spend another two hours Tuesday burning more documents.