RadioShack recently filed for bankruptcy and has begun the process of closing down about 2,000 stores. It'd be a typical affair, if not for the millions of customer names, addresses, and emails the company is selling as part of its "assets."

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Bloomberg is reporting that private data belonging to 117 million RadioShack customers – including 65 million names and addresses and 13 million emails – are up for sale as part of the retail chain's bankruptcy auction.This is all according to Hilco Streambank, an asset monetization service, which also states that any attempt to seal a deal on the private data would probably be blocked by the bankruptcy court.The fact that RadioShack promised its customers that it wouldn't sell their personal informational only complicates things further.As a lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton points out, some RadioShack stores had displayed signs that read: "We pride ourselves on not selling our private mailing list." In the state of Texas, it's illegal for companies to violate their own policies to sell personal information.AT&T thinks RadioShack should destroy its records, but not over privacy concerns.Several of the customers contained in RadioShack's database include AT&T customers, and because one bidder in RadioShack's bankruptcy auction plans to reopen a few RadioShack stores with special Sprint departments inside, AT&T wants to prevent a competitor from obtaining information about its users.After being in business since 1921, RadioShack filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February of this year.

Chloi Rad is a Staff Writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @_chloi