 The Federal Trade Commission reported last year that over 9 million Americans fell victim to identity theft, while losses to businesses and financial institutions totalled $48 billion. Consumers lost $4 billion in out-of-pocket expenses. 
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The Problem
In January 2003, researchers at MIT bought 158 used, random disk drives from an online store and found that 60% of them had data still in tact. Additionally, these same researchers found 5,000 credit card numbers on these disks.
When you decommission a system, you have to do something about the data on that system. It's not a good idea to just power down an old system and give it away, or sell it on eBay. You need to ensure that all sensitive data cannot be accessed.
It is rare for organizations and companies not to have sensitive information on their hard disks. The Hard Disk Crusher can help you ensure that the following types of information remains private:
- Bank account numbers
- Biometric information
- Classified information
- Copyrighted material
- Corporate financial records
- Credit card numbers
- Department of Defense secrets
- DNA records
- Driver's license numbers
- Encryption keys
- Firewall configuration files
- Information security documents
- Investment account information
- Medical records
- Law enforcement records
- Legal cases and records
- Login and password information
- National security information
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- Passport numbers
- Patents
- Personal email
- Pharmaceutical formulas
- Political campaign secrets
- Pornography
- Proprietary information
- Retirement account information
- Router ACLs
- Security configuration files
- Sensitive customer information
- Social Security numbers
- Standardized test scores
- Stock trades
- Strategic business plans
- Tax records
- Trade secrets
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Proper decommissioning of corporate data can help your company avoid lawsuits and decrease its liabilities. In order to comply with various U.S. information security laws and regulations, all data requires proper decommissioning. The Hard Disk Crusher can help you comply with the following laws and regulations:
- Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (COPPA)
- OMB Circular A-130, Management of Federal Information Resources
- OMB Memorandum 01-05
- OMB Memorandum 00-13
- OMB Memorandum 99-05
- OMB Memorandum 99-18
- OMB Memorandum 03-22
- Sarbanes-Oxley
- Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act
- Section 208 of the E-Government Act of 2002
- The Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA)
- The Federal Information Security Act of 2002 (FISMA)
- The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
- The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- The Privacy Act
- Public Law 100-503, Computer Matching and Privacy Act of 1988
- 5 U.S.C. § 552, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) of 1966, as Amended by Public Law No. 104-231, 110 Stat. 3048
Non-compliance of these laws could lead to anything from job loss and career limitations to expensive financial penalties. If you're a Chief Information Officer, or a Chief Information Security Officer, you won't want to take the risk.
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