From: lyger (lygerattrition.org)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 16:57:41 CST

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5444381.html

The Texas attorney general filed court papers Thursday accusing a facility
owned by a Pennsylvania-based physical therapy company of violating state
identity theft protection laws.

Investigators in the attorney general's office say a rehabilitation center
operated by Select Physical Therapy dumped about 4,000 pieces of sensitive
customer information in garbage containers behind its facility in
Levelland, about 30 miles west of Lubbock. The records included Social
Security numbers, credit and debit card account numbers, names, addresses
and telephone numbers.

Investigators say the garbage containers also contained "sensitive medical
information" and copies of checks from large corporations that had
contracted with the facility for employee physicals and drug tests.

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