A recent article by Kevin Townsend picks up on a report by Blancco Technology Group suggesting that ‘78% of second-hand hard drives purchased from eBay and Craigslist now contain recoverable corporate or personal information’. Blancco’s conclusions are based on the examination of 200 randomly selected drives they bought and examined in the first three months of 2016. Blancco’s business is the certified destruction of data and the management of reused computers and devices, so the company’s interest in the issue is unsurprising. It’s not surprising, either, that it was easily able to recover data that the owners believed to have been erased. In fact, 40% of the drives were apparently erased by quick format, which leaves data easily recoverable, and 36% seemed to have been deleted by simply using the recycle bin or delete button.
The Data Protection Dustbin: Safely Disposing of Personal Data
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