Documents containing about 200 people's financial details were found strewn across a road after they apparently fell off the back of a lorry in Wantage.
Can you imagine the damage that could have been had these details got into the wrong hands?
The story goes on to say.
Thousands of sheets of bank, mortgage and pension details, as well as names, addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth, were found in Mill Street on Monday.
Builder Ryan Tate was shocked when he discovered the information belonged to people from across the country.
The 34-year-old picked up the documents, strewn over 70 yards from four boxes, and handed them in to police.
Police spokesman Toby Shergold said they managed to trace the owners of the information and that it had been on its way to storage via a courier company.
He said the information had been mislaid in transit but refused to name the company. He added: "We would like to thank Mr Tate for his responsible actions."
A spokesman from the Information Commissioner's Office, a Government agency with responsibility for protecting personal information, said it could not comment on the case but said breaches of people's privacy were taken very seriously.
Who are they protecting here? this could have been far worse, they got off lightly!
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in this day and age, it's starting to become rare that someone would actually do all that 
