TheIndyChannel.com sponsor (_) Site (_) Web (_) Yellow Pages (_) A-List Businesses _______________ GO Site Map Home Slideshows Most Popular Community Calendar Contact RTV6 E-Mail Alerts Get RSS MainNav Home Indiana News National News Weather Sports Watchdogs Entertainment Staying Healthy Money Jefferson Awards Site Contents MarketplaceNav IndyLaw.tv It's Your Business A-List Business Guide Auto Dating Indianapolis Jobs Real Estate Travel StationNav Advertise Contact RTV6 About RTV6 News Team TV Listings Community Calendar SitetoolsNav E-mail Sign Up 6News On The Go RSS Extreme Makeover Call 6 Related To Story Call 6 For Help * Problem? Contact Call 6 * Join The Team: Call 6 Seeks Volunteers State To Examine Business Records Found In Dumpster POSTED: 11:05 pm EDT September 11, 2006 INDIANAPOLIS -- The state attorney general's office intends to examine business documents that contained personal information and were found in a large trash bin, Call 6 for Help's Rafael Sanchez reported. Employees of the former Telesource telemarketing company said they found piles of records that included employees' and consumers' personal information in the trash bin on Indianapolis' south side. The employees said Telesource had been bought by another company, Vekstar, earlier in the year, and that Telesource's former office at U.S. 31 and Shelby Street was being cleaned out. sponsor The records in the trash bin included names, Social Security numbers and addresses, Sanchez reported. Susan Kline, an employment law attorney, said a 2005 federal law requires businesses to destroy personal information in a manner beyond just tossing it into a trash bin. "When it goes out of the possession of the employer, it needs to be destroyed in some way that it can not be re-created," Kline said. The people who found the documents intend to give them to the attorney general's office, Sanchez reported. Under a new state law geared at combating identity theft, companies must contact people if their personal information is deemed to have been compromised. In a statement written on behalf of Vekstar, attorney Rodger K. Hendershot said Telesource left the records when it ceased operations and vacated the Shelby Street office. The statement said Vekstar purchased assets from Telesource, but Vekstar did not purchase the abandoned records. The statement said abandoned documents that were "identifiable as sensitive in nature" were shredded. "All other files that were not readily identifiable as sensitive in nature were thrown in a trash dumpster to be disposed. Any employee records that were inadvertently discarded were records that had previously been abandoned by Telesource and were not the property of Vekstar," the statement said. Previous Stories: * September 11, 2006: Identity Theft Scare Hits Closing Indy Business Copyright 2006 by TheIndyChannel.com All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Links We Like sponsor Sponsored Links sponsor sponsor Sponsored Links sponsor On The Side Is Online Dating Safe? Recognize Alzheimers [19980066_180X125.jpg] Improve Your Health Deal With Pay Cuts Desktop Alert [ibs_bug_color.gif] [cnn_bug_color.gif] © 2011, McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Company. Click here for the privacy policy, terms of use. Click here for advertising information. Microsoft MapPoint Terms of Use Microsoft Privacy Statement See All Internet Broadcasting Sites Site Map [p?c1=2&c2=7507067&c3=&c4=&c5=&c6=&c15=&cj=1] Quantcast