Personal, financial information remains on most second-hand computers
Monday, November 10th, 2008Most identity theft victims will never know how it happened. The results of the “the analysis of information remaining on disks offered for sale on the second-had market” study might provide some insight, if not comfort.
To put it briefly, what this international study found was that 2 out of 3 second-hand computers are sold with data remaining on their hard drives. As is that weren’t alarming enough, that’s a significant decline from last year’s finding that 45 of all computers examined were wiped clean before being sold. (more…)












