My company has relocated to a building formerly owned by AT&T. We also bought their office furniture as well. Here's the problem, one of the file cabinets is full of AT&T's costumer files. These files include full names, Social Security numbers, address, credit card numbers, etc.
With Identity theft at a all time high, should I:
- Alert AT&T
- Alert the local police as well as my company police department
- Call the people from the files and inform them of the breach of data so they can cancel their credit cards
- Notify Newspaper
- Throw them away
What would you do?
Update posted in the comment section
The Problem with calling AT&T is my company has a police department and therefore I would not be going through the right channels.
I did call our police department and we placed the files in a locked room and a call was made to our law department. Our company will get in touch with AT&T to determine what should be done with the files. What scares me is that some of AT&T customers data was sitting in a unsecured location for 8 months with construction works, contractors, and my company employees all having access to them. I know that if my information was carelessly lying around in an empty building for any amount of time I would be upset.
Posted by: Bruce | Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 08:38 PM
I'm sorry, am I missing something? I would have thought the only thing to do was to inform AT&T of the situation. What's so difficult about that decision?
Posted by: Neil | Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 08:17 PM
I would destroy the info and then inform the company police. I know that I am probably the exception, but everything comes back around... so remember the golden rule. Just to cover my a** with the company, I would probably make a note of the names that were destroyed.
The reason why I wouldn't give them to the cops they're only human. So I better take care of the matter myself.
Posted by: Kenneth | Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 02:37 PM
My associates would be very interested in acquiring for the appropriate fee, all personal info that you have stumbled upon.
If acceptable to you, pls leave a notice on your website that you interested to talk and and I will then provide a better communication link between us.
Nick
Identity Theft Group
Gambino Family Business
New York, NY
Posted by: Nick "Scarface" Santucci | Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 02:18 PM
call NS police! NOW!
Posted by: screenwriter | Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 02:04 PM