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Personal Documents Found In Dumpster

Posted: 12:06 pm EST February 2, 2009Updated: 12:57 pm EST February 2, 2009

An Orange City man made a troubling discovery in a Volusia County dumpster. Michael Perry was looking for boxes in a dumpster, but found hundreds of folders containing names, addresses, social security numbers and even credit card information.

The information was written on work orders from Southern Satellite on 17-92 in Orange City. The business is a home satellite installation company.

WFTV contacted customers who were not happy.

"Not acceptable at all, I will talk to my wife and I will find out what I can do, if I have to get a lawyer, I will get a lawyer on it," said customer John Akerstom.

Eyewitness News also called Orange City police. Officers boxed up the information and promised to investigate.

The owner of Southern Satellite said the dumped files were an unfortunate oversight.

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