Was this the good ole' cheapest alternative chosen by some small businesses including by an unnamed law firm ?

An unidentified Ottawa commercial IT tenant ( in arrears ) abandoned the leased premises along with a large trove of client data.

Such included hard disks - reportedly ten million files - & hardcopy material readily compromising the ex-tenant's IT clients. Included mailings from C.R.A. . . .

What's unusual is that after opportunities to redeem the tenancy and instead of just shipping the mess off to a waste site, this concerned landlord ultimately went to the expense & trouble of having the security breaches identified & resolved.

And of alerting CBC in a report that went national.

Was the careless ex-tenant the cheap choice of the small scale clients whose data has been shockingly & sociopathically compromised ?

Were the careless ex-tenant's clients themselves in breach of duty to their own customers & clients ? condo owners ?

Nov 22/19 CBC Ottawa “Landlord finds millions of confidential files left by defunct IT firm”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/fly-by-night-it-company-leaves-10-million-digital-files- cautionary-tale-1.5365619