On Friday , February 8 , 2013 , around 7:00 am we discovered a forcible break - in at Mercedes - Benz of Walnut Creek ’s dealership . Between the close of business on Thursday , February 7th and the morning of Friday , February 8th , a thief or thieves pried open a locked exterior door to the dealership , another locked interior door into the Business Office was pried open , and once inside the Business Office , locked file cabinets containing customer deal jackets were pried open and some customer deal files were removed . Additionally , some files containing customer personal information were removed from our Service Department . ;