A computer hard disc containing one million sets of bank details was bought on eBay for just £35. The secondhand PC contained details of customers from American Express, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland. The files included names, addresses, sort codes, account numbers, credit card numbers, mobile phone numbers, mothers' maiden names and even scans of signatures - more than enough for an identity thief.
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**Shoot yourself in the foot and blame the Government**
Anyone know who has the Hard Drive now? Has it been returned or destroyed?
1) Why was sensitive information like this even on the local C drive of the machine? That's totally unacceptable.
2) Don't Amex/Natwest/RBoS have any sort of secure computer decomissioning procedure? At the company I work for, all hard drives are erased to Ministry of Defense standards before being shipped back to the leasing company, and out data is no-where near as sensitive as this.
To beg the question does not mean "to raise the question."
http://begthequestion.info/
To beg the question does not mean "to raise the question."
http://begthequestion.info/
But it DOES raise the question, so STFU and stop being a Dictionary Nazi.
To beg the question does not mean "to raise the question."
http://begthequestion.info/
A life, get one.
To beg the question does not mean "to raise the question."
http://begthequestion.info/
But it DOES raise the question, so STFU and stop being a Dictionary Nazi.
So you agree that "beg the question" was used incorrectly then and "raise the question" should have been used instead.
2409 posts versus 21 posts. Depends what kind of life you mean. A life behind a screen or a life away from one?
To beg the question does not mean "to raise the question."
http://begthequestion.info/
Well thank you very much there Mr. Helper. What would we do without your vast grammar knowledge? We'd be lost, LOST I SAY!
I love that, it's so helpful to the environment to waste perfectly good equipment when a simple dod format would suffice.
Ebay should be forced to provide the seller and buyer's addresses, send in a swat team, problem solved. Then find out what moron of a network administrator let a user pull down all that info to his desktop pc.
I love that, it's so helpful to the environment to waste perfectly good equipment when a simple dod format would suffice.
Ebay should be forced to provide the seller and buyer's addresses, send in a swat team, problem solved. Then find out what moron of a network administrator let a user pull down all that info to his desktop pc.
As much as I want to flame you right now for your ignorance, I will just simply state that you are WRONG and if someone is determined enough data can be recovered even after 100 low level formats. You should see the process our armed forces go through to get rid of sensitive data, it involves a lot more than drilling holes..which is still not even that safe.
Even that is too much work! Just drag the files to the recycling bin. That's just as good. No one can recover data from the recycling bin, plus it saves energy so is easier on the environment!!!
Even that is too much work! Just drag the files to the recycling bin. That's just as good. No one can recover data from the recycling bin, plus it saves energy so is easier on the environment!!!
Epic funny
If you actually believe that, I hope you are NOT in the IT field.
There are approximately 100000 programs that can recover this stuff. DOD wipes are the only way to be sure.
If you actually believe that, I hope you are NOT in the IT field.
There are approximately 100000 programs that can recover this stuff. DOD wipes are the only way to be sure.
I'm pretty sure that was a joke.
I love that, it's so helpful to the environment to waste perfectly good equipment when a simple dod format would suffice.
Ebay should be forced to provide the seller and buyer's addresses, send in a swat team, problem solved. Then find out what moron of a network administrator let a user pull down all that info to his desktop pc.
As much as I want to flame you right now for your ignorance, I will just simply state that you are WRONG and if someone is determined enough data can be recovered even after 100 low level formats. You should see the process our armed forces go through to get rid of sensitive data, it involves a lot more than drilling holes..which is still not even that safe.
I'm sorry but the armed forces of the U.S.A. uses the 5220-22 M Standard, from the DOD. Wich is a 7 step format. Only some informations have higher level security over it, wich normally envolves rewritting some ones among with the zeros many times.
Making holes on the HD looks more like some criminal trying not to get caught.
Important to remember that almos all services on the pentagon are 3rd-party services, and the informatics is one of them in the building.
What store do you work for, Idiots 'R Us?
If you actually need to destroy a hard drive permanently, you do not need to drill a hole in it. Hard drives are sealed units for a few reasons, and one of those reasons is that they contain material that is not environmentally friendly. Just smash it with a hammer a few times if you really do need to permanently destroy the drive... Not that I think that's a smart way to assure data security.
As other people have commented, there's easier ways of wiping the data off a hard drive than taking a power tool to it. You're obviously not a trained or certified computer hardware technician or you would know this.
Making holes on the HD looks more like some criminal trying not to get caught.
Important to remember that almos all services on the pentagon are 3rd-party services, and the informatics is one of them in the building.
Next time you wanna pull some fantasy out of your ass and call it facts, it helps if you know how to write. Not to mention spell.
How hath thou messed up: Let me count the ways.
1) You misspelled "information" (and put an "s" on the end in an attempt to pluralize a word that's already plural)
2) You spelled "which" wrong. Twice.
3) You spelled "Involves" incorrectly as "envolves."
4) You spelled rewritting wrong. Re-write that, please.
5) A hard disk drive is corectly abriviated as HDD, not as HD.
6) You spelled "almost" as "almos" I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and call it a typo, but it's still incorrect.
7) You cite NISP Operating Manual (DoD 5220.22-M) (Incorrectly caling it "the 5220-22 M Standard), claiming that it specifes a 7-step method. However, the the NISPOM does not actually specify any particular method. Standards for sanitization are left up to the Cognizant Security Authority. The Defense Security Service provides a Clearing and Sanitization Matrix (C&SM) which does specify methods.
Further, you are misinformed if you belive that the C&SM specifies repeated disk erasure as an acceptable method. As of the June 2007 edition of the DSS C&SM, overwriting is no longer acceptable for sanitization of magnetic media; only degaussing or physical destruction is acceptable.
Now look sad an say "Duho!"
I love that, it's so helpful to the environment to waste perfectly good equipment when a simple dod format would suffice.
Ebay should be forced to provide the seller and buyer's addresses, send in a swat team, problem solved. Then find out what moron of a network administrator let a user pull down all that info to his desktop pc.
As much as I want to flame you right now for your ignorance, I will just simply state that you are WRONG and if someone is determined enough data can be recovered even after 100 low level formats. You should see the process our armed forces go through to get rid of sensitive data, it involves a lot more than drilling holes..which is still not even that safe.
I'm sorry but the armed forces of the U.S.A. uses the 5220-22 M Standard, from the DOD. Wich is a 7 step format. Only some informations have higher level security over it, wich normally envolves rewritting some ones among with the zeros many times.
Making holes on the HD looks more like some criminal trying not to get caught.
Important to remember that almos all services on the pentagon are 3rd-party services, and the informatics is one of them in the building.
Thank you for repeating what I said but adding factual information to it.
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