Don't Ever Think Your Records Are 100% Safe

A guy finds the personal documents of a local company in his parking lot. And that's the "normal" part of this story:

Lucky for the people whose personal information is prominently listed on the paperwork dating as far back as 1999, Voght is trying to do the right thing and return them to the company. When he called the number listed on the documents, he says he was simply asked to send it back.

Voght says he was shocked. "If it was my company, I would have sent somebody right over right then and there to retrieve the information on the spot."

Instead he was told to wait a couple days for a mailer to show up so he could send the papers back. "Hopefully, it doesn't get lost!" he joked.

We're talking about everything form "unemployment insurance claims to resumes and banking records" here, not somebody's chicken scratch from a 30-minute meeting.

The company's name is Financial Data Concepts and it's located in Rockville, MD. A quick Google Search shows that a company called Computershare Analytics (supposedly) bought them out in 2001. As for Computershare:

We are the world’s largest -- and only global -- share registry, and a leading provider of financial market services and technology to the global securities industry. Our experienced professionals, almost 10,000 strong, operate in seventeen countries, on five continents, providing services and solutions to listed companies, investors, employees, exchanges and other financial institutions.

So "the world's largest share registry" bought out FDC, which is/was "a U.S.-based strategic market intelligence company" that just so happen to spill alot of personal documents on some guy's stoop. And they want him to mail the stuff back to them.

Keep this story in mind the next time a company, any company, tells you that your personal information is safe with them.