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[Dataloss] ACORN Dumped Sensitive Documents as Probe Began, Private Investigator Says

From: security curmudgeon (jerichoattrition.org)
Date: Tue Nov 24 2009 - 00:17:22 CST

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576466,00.html

ACORN Dumped Sensitive Documents as Probe Began, Private Investigator Says
Monday, November 23, 2009
By Joseph Abrams

Private investigator Derrick Roach says he found thousands of documents
containing sensitive personal information dumped outside the San Diego
branch of ACORN.

Private investigator Derrick Roach says he found thousands of documents
containing sensitive personal information dumped outside the San Diego
branch of ACORN.

A private investigator says he found tens of thousands of sensitive
documents dumped outside a California ACORN office just days after the
state attorney general announced an inquiry into the community organizing
group.

Derrick Roach, a licensed investigator based in San Diego, told
FoxNews.com he paid an impromptu visit to the city's ACORN branch on Oct.
9 and watched from his car as a man tossed bags of files into a Dumpster
outside the building.

After ACORN staff left for the day, he says, he searched the trash bin and
discovered more than 20,000 documents he believes point to illicit
relationships between ACORN and a bank and a labor union as well as
confidential information that could put thousands at risk for identity
theft.

"We're talking people's driver's license numbers, dates of birth, Social
Security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, tax returns,
credit reports" all tossed in public view in the Dumpster, he said.

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