Recent studies have shown that people who have not sold the hard disk drives or older SSDs unused do not they take any appropriate precautions until they clear all their data, where there is a clear risk that the buyer can easily access the information and data of their own personal information.
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It was a report version of Blancco Technology Group of companies, which came titled 'The Leftovers: A Data Recovery Study' (method of data), where the restoration of scanned about 200 of the disks that were recently purchased from the site eBay and Craigslist engines.
Has been appointed a number of experts to work on drives and were able to restore the former customer data of about 78% of these parts, also found that about 67% of the drives has been the complexity of the personal data of users and approximately 11% of these devices still include data can be extracted .
Experts managed to extract e-mails from about 9% of the drives, has been extracted a number of spreadsheets such as sales forecasts of about 5% of the units were also extracted about 3% of the actual customer data.
For personal information that has been extracted, and was extracted images of about 43% of the drives, has also been extracted encryption numbers sites social networking of about 23% of the engines, the financial statements have been extracted from approximately 21% of the engines, was also extracted a number of CVs CVs of about 10% of the units.
The real problem is that most people do not realize that deleting files does not mean actually delete the data, you can delete this data easily from the operating system as a whole, but the data do exist on the physical drive until it is replaced with new data and then do deleted.
To make sure that the data has been removed completely from the hard drive or SSD, you must use the method of erasing data in a secure manner, which include register more than once, data and scanned to make sure, where he found that 10% of the drives all the data has been such a survey securely.
Pat Clawson, CEO of Blancco Technologies commented that a lot of technology companies and executives in the information technology demonstrated in the recent interest in addressing the problem of security threats to data breaches.
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