YouTube Video Shows Customer Names and Account Numbers Left in Trash Outside JP Morgan Chase Bank Branches

U.S. Newswire, April, 2007

To: NATIONAL EDITORS

Contact: Julie Karant, 1-646-584-9001; Matt Nerzig, 1-215-665- 8613; both of Service Employees International Union

NEW YORK, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new video on YouTube shows the discovery of individuals' social security numbers, bank account balances and numbers, and other sensitive information in trash bags outside JPMorgan Chase Bank branches in New York City. The personal and financial information found on the street in Chinatown, Queens, the Upper East Side, and in two Brooklyn locations could be used to perpetrate identity theft.

"Identity theft is one of the nation's fastest growing crimes that wreak havoc on the lives of unsuspecting victims," said New York City Council Member and Consumer Affairs Committee Member,...

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