Darwin woman Toni Grant was shocked when she received a call from a stranger telling her they'd found personal records containing her mobile number, tax file number and medical information in a pile of rubbish in bushland. Similar documents belonging to others were also found.
A large number of documents containing personal information, including medical information, bank records and phone numbers , have been found in a pile of rubbish dumped in Darwin 's rural area.
It included documents from various Northern Territory government agencies, as well as employment records belonging to a woman named Toni Grant."I sent her a private message saying 'I think you need to see this'," she said.At the site, Ms Grant collected a stack of personal documents she had supplied to pet retailer Petbarn while working for one of the company's Darwin stores between 2011 and 2017.
"So there's a two-year discrepancy between when we're 99 per cent sure were thrown out, to when it's been dumped," she said.In a statement, a Petbarn spokesperson said the company had conducted a "thorough internal review" into the disposal of their employee records." found no evidence to suggest that the employees' information ended up in location due to any action or inaction on Petbarn's part," the spokesperson said.
Ms Grant said fear of identity theft had led to her changing all her contact details, passwords and tax information. "The steps that Toni has taken, although some might say that's a lot of steps that taken, if that gives her a better sense of comfort around her own security, then that's not a bad thing."According to the Australian Information Commissioner, insecure disposal of documents represented one per cent of data breaches caused by human error in the past year.
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