Are you securing what thieves want to steal?

FirstMerit Bank has branches in Elyria, Streetsboro, and Westlake, Ohio. Each of these has suffered from a theft recently, but not of cash, but trash. Banks commonly have large bins that hold "trash" which contains confidential customer information. This trash is locked in the bins until it can be shredded. These bins weigh 500 pounds each but were stored outside the branches.

FirstMerit is now attempting to identify which customers had information in those bins so they can implement a data breach procedure.