According to the latest research from CPR-Tools, 40% of hard drives, mobile devices and tablets sold on the re-use markets contain personally identifiable information (PII). The Ft. Meyers, FL-based data recovery and security firm used downloadable shareware to recover PII on 250 randomly selected storage devices. The company used unsophisticated methods to recover the data and notes that no forensic training was required to access the information.
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