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Radio Shack Sued For Throwing Away Customer Information

Apr 03 2007 18:13:23
Source: Techdirt
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We've had plenty of stories about companies and gov't agencies losing laptops or hard drives potentially revealing a a ton of private info, but apparently Radio Shack decided to go a more low tech route in exposing customer private info.



The amusingly named Witty Nickname writes in to let us know that the Texas Attorney General has sued Radio Shack after it discovered that a store was simply throwing out paper records that included customer names, social security numbers and credit cards.

All you had to do was walk by and pull some of the paperwork out of the company's trash bins and you could have all you needed for identity theft or credit card fraud.



Of course, this raises another question: why was Radio Shack recording SSNs and credit cards in the first place? .



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