Even with the advent of cloud storage, most of us have valuable files stored locally that we wouldn’t want to fall into the wrong hands. And yet, according to new research published by TechRadar, plenty of us aren’t anywhere near cautious enough when it comes to selling off old hard drives.
The data comes from the data recovery firm Secure Data Recovery, which purchased 100 hard drives at random. It then used “reasonable means” to try to extract data from the drives in question. That caveat means no attempts were made to get into damaged or encrypted drives, as the company emulated more casual data snoops.
