Recent Hacks Emphasize Importance of Hard Disk Crusher • Phiston Technologies

Hacking has to be one of the most infamous words of 2014. Seemingly no big name was safe. Just a few of the recent hacks this past year included:

  • Apple’s iCloud cloud computing system being hacked, resulting in the leaks of inappropriate imagery from multiple celebrities.
  • Several large merchants, from Target to Kmart, finding customer credit card information stolen.
  • The now-infamous Sony hack, allegedly connected to the release of the movie “The Interview” that prompted several terrorism and even war threats.

Entering 2015, the large corporations have plenty of reason to feel less safe about their data than ever before. Rumors that North Korea – the subject of ridicule in “The Interview” – was behind the Sony hack have prompted increased discussion about state-supported hacking for political reasons. Meanwhile, the corporations dealing with sensitive data such as Target have to work on regaining the trust of their customers.

What can you do? Better security measures are certainly part of the equation, and will continue to be a much-needed solution. But don’t forget about wiping old data, either. While you may deem documents from 2-3 years ago irrelevant now, do you think they would  be just as irrelevant to your competitors or cyber activists? If the answer is no, if anyone could possibly gain from acquiring that data, it may be time to look into permanently erasing it.

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That’s where our hard disk crushers come in. Hard drives tend to retain data even after you format them. So don’t think that a simple click of a button can permanently take care of your old documents. You need a professional solution, one that finds the physical location of the data on the drive and destroys it. Contact us today to learn more about data security and how you can keep your data from being stolen!

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