Re:Kanagawa government hard disks swiped, sold online
by bobthepanda on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:02AM
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There’s deletion, and then there’s deletion.
Zero-filling, one-filling, and random-filling all the bits of a hard drive is sufficient to make previous data effectively unretrievable. That doesn’t sound like what happened here.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/13674/is-it-pos...
Re:Kanagawa government hard disks swiped, sold online
by raverbashing on Friday December 06, 2019 @05:02AM
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"deleted"
I would bet a lot of money they dragged the files to the "recycle bin" then maybe emptied it
If they were external drives it's likely they were on FAT32 which makes it even easier
The hard drives had been used for data sharing servers at the prefectural government office and were replaced with new ones in the spring.
The prefectural government had deleted the data, but the successful bidder of the hard drives was able to restore them by using special software. The government is trying to locate the remaining nine hard drives, which were also sold online in July to August.
The data servers had been leased from Fujitsu Leasing Co., which commissioned Broadlink Co. to scrap the replaced hard drives.