The ICO commissioned the NCC Group to conduct the investigation, who
acquired 200 hard drives, 20 USB sticks and 10 cellphones from internet
auction sites and at trade fairs.
In the case of the hard disks, 11 percent contained personal
information. According to the ICO report, 37 percent contained
non-personal information, and only 38 percent of devices had been wiped.
A further 14 percent of the drives were too damaged to be readable.
34,000 of the files examined contained personal or corporate
information - including scanned bank statements, passports, birth
certificates, employee information, full bank details, family photos,
and tax and medical information.
Naked Security has talked before about the danger of sensitive information falling into the wrong hands because of unsafe disposal of hard drives.
We have even seen the details of a million bank customers sold on eBay on a hard drive costing £35.
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Fuiente: nakedsecurity.sophos.com
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