Security → Store Closes - Customers exposed to ID Theft

It seems it just keeps on getting worse (Dumpster Diving pays big again).

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The Hollywood Video store in the Baring Village Shopping Center like others in the chain is now closed, its shelves empty, but if you were a customer there and filled out a membership form that paperwork and all its information was left free for the taking out back when the store closed.

We were tipped last night that membership forms along with other store records had been dumped out in back. Our cameraman found a mess and the sight was no less scary in daylight.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of pieces of paper, receipts, records and worst of all membership forms, placed not even in the dumpster, but out in the open, the wind was already beginning to scatter it. On these forms, names, addresses, birthdates, I-D numbers, even credit card numbers and signatures.

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»www.kolotv.com/news/head ··· ?ref=939

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Blake
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Very sad indeed.

Is this the only location or all Hollywood Video stores? There was one near my home that closed a few years ago.

Here's a story about the owner filing for Chapter 11, again, in February 2010:

»www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35222092/

The store in question was probably one of the 805 that could be closed due to reorganization.
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In reality, there is no such thing as a clean human being.

Very stupid and careless of them!! (Shows just how people dont give a crap about anyone and its sad)

Their shredder, if they had one, probably broke.

Nah, more like they don't care.

I wonder what it will take for our Lawmakers to wake up and impose strict penalties for these types of negligence?

They are too concerned with the posting of copyrighted material to bother.