Who is Reading the Data on Your Old Computer?
Click Here to read a fantastic survey created by the Irish Data Security experts; Rits.
At Secure Data Recycling we believe that this report says it all, here are a couple of snippets:
“Of the 26 disks that were obtained for the research, 5 of the disks had mechanical faults and were not accessible. The remaining 21 disks were fully functional.”
‘Attempts of Removal of data: (8/21) 38% Attempts of removal was clear. This was a simple format, a simple delete or where a new installation of an operating system was performed. All of the data on these disks was recoverable, and all data was clearly found. (13/21) 62% of the disks had no attempts of data removal.”
So before we go on to read a few more snippets, let me explain the above; almost all the disks worked, all contained data and even though data removal had been tried, of the ones that worked, ALL the data could be retrieved!
“Financial: (5/21) 24% of the disks contained credit card information. (3/21) 60% of these disks that contained credit card information originated from the corporate sector. Alarmingly one of these disks contained a spreadsheet of at least 300 credit card details, along with expiry numbers, names and addresses. This disk came from the corporate sector that was involved in the organisation of sponsorship for a large charity event held in Ireland.”
STOP! That’s over 14% of the drives contained CREDIT CARD information….
We will show a few other sections from this report in future blogs but for now contact Secure Data Recycling and make sure your data is removed properly.
