67 percent of used drives for sale contain sensitive data

An analysis of 200 second-hand hard disks and solid state drives purchased from eBay and Craigslist in the first quarter of 2016 reveals that 67 percent of them contained personally identifiable information. In addition 11 percent held sensitive corporate data, including company emails, CRM records and spreadsheets containing sales projections and product inventories. The study comes from mobile diagnostics and secure erasure specialist Blancco Technology Group. "With the Ashley Madison hack, in particular, users who wanted to make sure all of their data was erased from the dating site put all of their trust into the site’s $20 'Full Delete'… [Continue Reading]