Just as it is vital for confidential records to be destroyed prior to disposal, it is just as important to properly destroy electronic data when a computer or electronic device is no longer in service.

With our mobile hard drive destruction service, we can come to your location with our truck to destroy your hard drives. Plus, for your records, we will also provide a "Certificate of Destruction."

Nearly all hard drives regardless of their size, format or type can be destroyed by Abraham's On-Site Shredding Service, LLC. In compliance with State and Federal privacy protection laws, the hard drive destruction process utilized renders the electronic data totally unobtainable by destroying the internal platter and all retrievable files / folders.

Computers and Copiers:
Not only should all computer and laptop hard drives be destroyed before being discarded or donated but also keep in mind the sensitive data contained within your office digital copier. Just about every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive... which stores an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by that machine. Therefore, it is vital that the hard drive from your digital copier be destroyed as it is packed with highly-personal or sensitive which could result in identity theft.

Why Deleting (or reformatting) Your Data is Not Enough:

Demand hard drive destruction... deleting or reformatting your electronic
data is not enough!

Like a file room, your hard drives have information physically located in specific areas. When you delete any file or folder the computer merely tags this space as "available" for future storage... it is not permanently removed. The information itself resides exactly as it did prior to your delete somewhere on the hard drive. In fact, even after new information replaces the deleted files forensic techniques are available to recover the data.

How Secure is Your Current Procedure?

Most alternative methods of data disposal are expensive, risky and extremely time-consuming. Verification with software and magnetic field procedures only work on functioning drives and even then may only suggest the data is unrecoverable using today's known methods of retrieval. But --who knows what advancements or secret methods will develop in the future!

For the security of your confidential information, demand hard drive destruction prior to disposing or donating any electronic equipment which contains a hard drive.

Call Abraham's On-Site Shredding Service for more details regarding properly destroying your electronic confidential data information prior to donating or disposing of your computer equipment.

Reference articles:

PC World: Nearly Half the Hard Drives on EBay Hold Personal Data

CSO: PC Disposal: Hard-Disk Risk

CBS Evening News: Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets