LifeLock review: Closed auto dealership, Anderson Kia, left behind hundreds of customer files
I love hearing stories about businesses that have come over to the green side with their recycling programs. Yessir, seeing all those stuffed recycling bins fills my heart with joy … almost always.
The exception is when those bins are filled with thousands of files containing customers’ personal information and left sitting in a parking lot at a closed car dealership.
Richard Freeman discovered 10 trash bins full of files with customers’ information after attending a going out of business auction at Anderson Kia in Boulder, Col.
“When I opened up the Dumpster, I noticed it was plum full of files,” Freeman said.
Each of the files was marked with the customers’ name and contained copies of driver’s licenses, checks, Social Security numbers, photos, phone numbers and bank information. In short, what he discovered was the stuff identity thieves’ dreams are made of.
Freeman said he was astonished and disgusted by the cavalier disposal of the files, a response no doubt heightened by the fact that his own file may be among the others, as he was one of Anderson Kia’s customers.
Though the files were found behind Anderson Kia, many of them came from John Elway’s AutoNation, which closed in 2005.
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