The Helping Homeless Veterans and Families moved offices this week. The problem is their moving truck wasn't big enough to take all their clients personal information with them. So boxes full of veterans medical information and social security numbers were dumped in the trash.

Luckily the boxes were found by someone who notified Channel 8 instead of using the information for theft. It may be years before a homeless vet discovers his identity has been stolen.

The low cost of a shredding service is worth the protection these veterans deserve.

Blue Gas is looking for a shredding service. The problem is that they only started their search after dozens of boxes of their customers and employees personal information was found in the trash. The boxes contained social security numbers and bank information for its clients.

The company tried the "leave it the dumpster and hope no one finds it" policy to document destruction. Business beware, there are a lot of people who are going through your trash.

The only sensible solution is to make shredding easy for everyone and as long as the standard office shredders are slow and jam so easily that means a shredding service.

The UCLA Medical Center has announced the firing of 13 employees and suspended six others for snooping in the medical records of the hospitals famous clients. Some who had their files opened include Maria Shriver, George Clooney, and Britney Spears. Along with the employees, several physicians also faced disciplinary action for improper accessing of medical records.


The breaches were discovered through an audit of logs which screens staff members for what they view and for how long. Palisades Medical Center in New Jersey had a similar problem and suspended 24 staff members for accessing George Clooney's medical records from there.

Can George Clooney's blood pressure be that interesting?