Erase your Cell Phones Before Selling on eBay

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Mobile security software provider Trust Digital recently performed an experiment. Company engineers bought ten mobile devices on eBay and looked to see how much of the previous owner’ information was still left on them.As it turns out, they found a very large amount.

These devices yielded nearly 27,000 pages of personal and corporate data. This 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 information was retained in the flash memory of the devices because of users’ failure to perform the advanced hard reset required to delete the data.

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