[clug] An old debate: Forensics study of cleaning old disk drives sold on e-bay

[steve jenkin]

An ongoing interest in this list:

<http://www.investigation.com/articles/library/2008articles/articles10.htm>

These people bought 100 drives old drives off e-bay and 40% contained
'sensitive' information.

They specifically didn't buy drives flagged as being 'erased'.

Most new SATA. Sizes 40-300Gb.

"Kessler International offered this breakdown of the kind of data it
retrieved: Personal and confidential documents, including financial
information, 36%; e-mails, 21%; photos, 13%; corporate documents. 11%;
Web browsing histories, 11%; DNS server information, 4%; miscellaneous
data, 4%."

"We were more concerned with searching for people's identification,
which is what we found, but we were surprised by all the corporate
spreadsheets and business finance records we found," Kessler said.

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Steve Jenkin, Info Tech, Systems and Design Specialist.
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