A Maricopa Meadows home builder should have read up on recycling methods before fleeing town. Frontier Homes, a home builder located in a city in Arizona, decided to flee town without a word but left behind the company PC as well as all its files. The refuse was found by Raymond Shaban, a homeowner who went to the company sales office to inquire about warranty work on his year-old home. When Shaban arrived, he didn’t find any friendly salespeople. Instead he found a nearly empty trailer and a parking lot littered with various objects such as desks, a filing cabinet, helium tanks, and more. Shaban decided to look around and was shocked to find that the filing cabinets were full of customer files. The files included sensitive personal information such as bank statements, customers’ financial information, and social security numbers. Among the materials were Shaban’s own files. Shaban immediately called the Maricopa Police and then the local media.
One of the first people on the scene was Jessi Tellez, co-owner of 8523mine.com, a local news and information forum. While waiting for the police to arrive, Tellez and others discovered a dumpster behind the trailer. The dumpster was completely filled to the top with sales literature, miscellaneous paperwork, house plans, and more customer files. The company’s PC was also among the items tossed into the dumpster but it was retrieved by a nearby resident. Reports state that the hard drive was still in tact although the information contained within was not disclosed. All sensitive items were confiscated and remanded to the police until they could be returned or properly destroyed.
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