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Data Disasters
Many examples of data disasters can be found online where significant data loss and risk exposure has occured during asset disposition. Below are links to articles on some of these incidents that illustrate the importance of choosing the right recycling partner. Sims Recycling Solutions follows DOD, NIST & NAID guidelines to ensure all data is securely removed.
Below are links to various videos and articles examining this issue:
- Email from discarded laptop embarrasses Wall Street firm
- Buffalo Police & Affinity Health lose data on old photocopiers - CBS News
- Morgan Grenfell/Deutsche Bank disposed hard drive bought from eBay with Paul McCartney's data.
- Arkansas Democrat Party hard drive sold on eBay
- Sims Recycling interviewed on data security
- Royal Bank of Scotland/AMEX lose 1M records on old machine
- Guidance on Printer data security
- PC World - half the drives sold on eBay have data on them
- German Police hard drive sold
- Printer security article on Ezine
- Data recoverable on space shuttle Columbia's hard drives
- Blackberry data highly valued in Nigeria
- Comprehensive article on data exposures and remedies
- CSO report on hard drives data availability
- US Government largest loss of data ever - military personnel
- PBS report on hard drives in Ghana
- Disposed VPN equipment gives access to UK authority's network
- Northrop Grumman data found in Ghanaian market
- Surplus computers sold with personnel records still on hard drive
- 5000 social security numbers on state computer sold at auction
To ensure your corporate or personal data does not end up like those in the articles listed above, contact us and one of our customer service agents will be able to advise you.