To Shred or Not to Shred -- The Paper Trail Of Data Breaches

Information Security Technology

I would not want to be a financial institution in the state of Texas these days. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has started aggressively enforcing two Texas identity theft laws.

Financial institutions are just like every other business, they produce mounds of paper and trash, the thing financial institutions often forget is that financial trash can be considerably more revealing (and valuable) than that of say an auto repair shop or other business.

While recent headlines have covered the myriad stories of electronic data breaches where the personal information of customers numbering in the millions were stolen, most regrettably the loss of paper copies of similarly valuable information is pushed aside.

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