Dan Moore likes to bid on the unclaimed contents of storage lockers sold at auction, according to a report by News 10 TV station, but one recent purchase saddled the Stockton, CA, man with more than he bargained for: thousands of dental charts.
Moore bought hundreds of boxes for $15 without knowing the contents, News 10 reported. Opening them, he got a shock.
"I feel uneasy," he told News 10. "If I had a dentist, letting files being accessed by anybody, that's not right."
Reportedly the files had been stored by a defunct business purchased by Dental Group of Stockton, which wasn't aware of their existence. "They're over 5 years old. We're not responsible," Dental Group's spokesman Alex Manzo is quoted in the news report.
Since he works in the medical field, Moore was aware of the privacy issues and the risk of identity theft if the records fell into the wrong hands, according to the report, and was considering whether to spend hundreds of dollars to have them safely destroyed. But in the end, Dental Group agreed to bear the cost, according to the report.
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