Many companies choose to shred in-house. This decision requires them to ignore the economic reality and the security risks. But how can they ignore the problems of disposing of the shredded paper? Easy for one Texas bank, just sell your shredded material to a local online merchant.

The first problem is that they don't use a good enough shredder to truly destroy the information. However, any shredding service will tell you that the shreds should also be handled with care. For most that means pulping the shreds. The side benefit is the paper is now recycled into new paper.

There is no stop to my amazement about who is still not handling their expired records correctly. SNB Bank was throwing old checks into the trash. And this is not a story where someone finds them and calls the police and local news.

These checks were found by David R. Osborne who used them to pass bad checks. He was caught by an alert KFC clerk who saw a check come in for a second time . Osborne was arrested and confessed to getting the checks out of the banks dumpster.

This is a reminder that for every company that gets caught for sensitive information in their dumpster there are bad guys making the same discoveries.