Everyone has confidential paperwork in their home. Things like bank statements as well as letters that contain personal information are all documents that can cause you to be the victim of identity theft or fraud and making sure that you don’t let these things fall into the wrong hands is really important.
As well as your personal documents, with the rise in people working from home, business documents are also at risk of theft, and it is not just the paperwork, but also the information on your phone and your computer.
Lot of people think that simply tearing the paperwork up is enough but unfortunately it isn’t. Cunning criminals have been bin raiding for years and are more than capable of finding what they want and using the information even if it’s torn up to steal your information from you.
If you have an office at home where you work from it is important that you apply good security measures to keep it safe, even from others in your own household.
Identity theft causes a lot of stress to the victim, and it can be happening for some time without you even knowing about it. The best way to get rid of confidential data that you no longer need is to use a professional company who can destroy both paperwork and electrical materials like phones and hard drives, such as this confidential waste disposal Birmingham based company www.printwaste.co.uk/confidential-shredding/confidential-shredding-birmingham Doing this now can give you peace of mind.