Police are investigating how the personal files of 1,200 Ameriquest Mortgage customers turned up in a dumpster at an Atlanta apartment complex. Police say the 40 boxes of records contain sensitive financial information, including customers' credit histories, bank account information, tax and salary records and social security numbers.
Management of the Montego Apartments complex immediately alerted police after the abandoned boxes were discovered last month.
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An Ameriquest representative has reviewed some of the documents, and spokesman Chris Orlando says the company believes they were stolen from Ameriquest in late 2002.
According to Orlando, "We take the security of our records very seriously...and have been working to locate the person or persons responsible for the theft. We are pleased that the files have now been secured by authorities in DeKalb County, and we are working with local law enforcement to determine what information is contained in the files and who stole them."
Deputy Chief Burrows says so far his department has uncovered no evidence that the files were stolen from Ameriquest.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Document Dump
Uh-huh.