You may not notice a lot of users have made on the sale of HDD or SSD flash memory to the problems that may result from the sale of these units without ensuring their data scan in full, putting a lot of users to the risk of the use of data and information stored on them.
The latest studies have spotted some of the problems arising from the sale of hard drives or memory SSD without ensuring erase stored the data fully, making the user exposed to the risk of the use of private data and information or confidential by the new user, which constitutes a threat to the user in particular, whether the ownership solid lending belonging to one of the companies
The report, which came out of Blancco Technology Group has pointed out, that the study was conducted on a group of 200 units of the solid old flash disks and memory that are traded for sale on eBay Find of the, 93% of hard drives and the rest of the memory SSD, where experts could in Blancco restore the data stored on the disks flash memory and hard again and that 78% of the group that carried out the tests.
The study also showed that 67% of the hard drives that have been stored data restore them again revealed a lot of information and data the original user's hard drives for personal, also contained 11% of solid or disks, memory, flash on confidential information to some companies.
The study also confirmed the expert's ability to restore your e-mail address registered on these discs companies by 9%, along with other data back to consumers and clients of these companies.
Among the data that is also disclosed in some of the images that belong to the users of these disks, which experts did not find any obstacle in restoring smoothly from hard disk memory by about 43% hard disks, along with other data back to the user, such as bank account data, or complete information for biography for users, so these units sold from hard disk of flash memory is only a window provided by the user of the infiltrators and Alhecrz to take advantage of them.
Expectations wrong delete the data before selling hard drives
Many incorrectly expected to delete the data to the trash enough to erase data stored on hard or flash memory drives, but the data remains in effect on the unit or device while erasing data from the operating system only, so the old data remains that the new user starts writing from new, or new data and files are stored.
The report pointed out that 36% of unsold discs are erasing old data from them by starting a new data recording, as could some users to activate the quick format for the system unit, where the success achieved by 40% in the deletion of data, but they did not succeed in delete the data completely.
So it will be on the user's data protection effectively on hard drives or memory SSD before displaying the unit for sale by withholding the old data writing and save new data and fake to be sure to block the first data fully, as a candidate Remember them more than once to get the protection Larger.
Pat Clawson, Group CEO of Blancco has confirmed, that the study revealed the threats that the user has been subjected to as a result of an error accidental without paying attention to this sold hard drives that contain a lot of data, while spending a lot of companies huge amounts of money to support the protection systems and secure data on private bodies
