Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Straight from the "How dumb could you be to not have hard reset your device before listing it on Ebay" department, a security firm by the name of Trust Digital undertook a project to find people selling devices that contained personal information.
"Trust Digital engineers recovered nearly 27,000 pages of personal, corporate, and device data from nine of 10 mobile devices purchased through eBay for the project, including a smartphone sold by an employee of a major corporation. The salvaged data included personal banking and tax information, corporate sales activity notes, corporate client records, product roadmaps, contact address books, phone and Web logs, calendar records, personal and business correspondence, computer passwords, user medication information, and other private, competitive or potentially damaging material.
This is a great reminder of how easy it can be to lose track of your personal information when using a mobile device. To read the full release click the link below.
"Trust Digital engineers recovered nearly 27,000 pages of personal, corporate, and device data from nine of 10 mobile devices purchased through eBay for the project, including a smartphone sold by an employee of a major corporation. The salvaged data included personal banking and tax information, corporate sales activity notes, corporate client records, product roadmaps, contact address books, phone and Web logs, calendar records, personal and business correspondence, computer passwords, user medication information, and other private, competitive or potentially damaging material.
This is a great reminder of how easy it can be to lose track of your personal information when using a mobile device. To read the full release click the link below.