The personal information of thousands of Chase Bank customers was discovered in trashbags outside several New York-based branches and then recorded on YouTube, according to WCBS TV.

The YouTube video, which features an unidentifiable figure holding a number of confidential financial statements and reading the information aloud, is drawing droves of attention from irate Chase customers.
Chase responded in a statement promising to look into the matter.
This incident is the most current in a series of high-profile YouTube "outings," which include the Michael Richards racist rant, police abusing a UCLA student with a taser, and a video of John McCain singing the words "bomb Iran" to old hit "Barbara Ann."

And because the person on the groundfloor of a breaking news story is not always a reporter, companies like MSNBC and Denmark-based Avisen are leveraging citizen journalism components on their websites.