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Forensics Firm Finds Private Data on Drives Sold on ebay
“A New York computer forensics firm said that 40 of 100 hard disk drives it recently purchased in bulk orders on eBay contained personal information, including corporate financial data, DNS server information, and personal e-mail and photos.”
Source: PCWorld
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23. February 2009 at 00:47
Moral of this story? Your computer hard drive should be entirely wiped before you sell it. There are many utilities (free) available on the internet that will do a good job of wiping a hard drive. Just checkout Google or Ask.com!