100 hundred hard drives loaded with topsecret  information are auctioned on eBay. it have datas like test launch procedures and building blueprints for Lockheed Martin’s ground to air missile defense.

The drives were part of a group of 300 hard drives (so they are the Brave 300? I wonder who’s Gerard Butler?)  sold on the auction site, coming from the US, UK, Germany, France and Australia. Some of them were formatted, but it wasn’t a destructive format and the files were easily recovered.

Fortunately for us, the buyers weren’t the bad guys but British Telecom’s Security Research Centre. They bought the drives for a security study in collaboration with the University of Glamorgan in Wales, Edith Cowan University in Australia and Longwood University in the US.

Other information found in the drives were patient medical records, including x-ray images, patient photos, and confidential letters. Others included security logs for embassies and confidential corporate information detailing a 50 billion currency exchange.

Wow!! Imagine if those hard drives are from Megan Fox and it contains her Nude photos and Hot Moments! Wow!! So to cut it short, we’ve got three options: use a destructive formatting in case you are planning to sell your hard drives, do not sell them at all, or format it and then destroy it so no one can restore its datas.

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