Man's personal data still on "new" hard drive

YOU'RE PROBABLY wondering why we haven't called up the chap whose personal data was on a drive we bought from PC World a few weeks back at full price. The answer is this is a can of beans and we've only got halfway round the top of said can. It is a jigsaw puzzle, so bear with us because we've one of those funny bits which just has blue sky and, er, jigs.

The story so far. We bought, yes bought, a drive from PC World in Tottenham Court Road, found all sorts of data on it, rang the DSG group, then contacted Western Digital, the latter confirming the drive was sold to London distributor CMS. WD is a commendable company - see the tracking slip below.

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News source: The Inq