Huge Trove of Employee Records Discovered At Abandoned Toys 'R' Us (hackaday.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Hackaday recently engaged in a bit of urban exploration, taking a look inside of a recently purchased Toys "R" Us location that has been boarded up since the once giant toy store chain folded in June. Inside they found plenty of hardware left behind, from point-of-sale systems to the Cisco networking gear in the server room. But the most interesting find was on paper.

In a back office, they found "several boxes" of personal information about the store's employees, from their medical records to photocopies of their driver's licenses and Social Security cards [and also tax forms]. A video included with the article gives the viewer an impression of just how large a collection of files were left behind.

The author wonders if the situation in this particular store was a fluke, or if the other [800] Toys "R" Us locations were left in a similar state.
The article calls it "a very surprising look at what get's left behind when the money runs out and the employees simply give up...."

"We saw the great lengths the company went to protect customer information, so to see how little regard they had for their own people was honestly infuriating."

Comments

Trespass. Breaking and Entering

[Anonymous Coward]

So they call it 'urban exploring'?

It's hard for employees to manage that

[damn_registrars]

At the end they're getting paid shit, treated like shit, and they feel like shit. Management often gets canned ahead of time and replaced with management from liquidation outfits, so there is little to no continuity on backend matters. It's unfortunate that it happened but not surprising.

Hopefully the other stores that are being turned into halloween stores are going to do a better job handling the flotsam.