40 percent have used the hard drive data to the former owners.

Forty percent of used hard drive, sold in the U.S. and Canada, contain personal details of former owners, reports Computerworld, with reference to the study of Kessler International.
Kessler International in the six months bought second-hand hard drive to an online auction eBay. Total purchased one hundred discs, the amount of 40 to 300 gigabytes. At the 40 carriers had different information. Only some discs, it was restored with the help of special software.
Much of the information on used hard drive - it is personal and financial documents (36 percent). The share of e-mail accounts and photographs of 21 and 13 percent respectively.
Also, experts from Kessler International found on used hard drives corporate documents (11 percent) and history of visits to sites (10 percent). Four per cent of the information on these records are on the DNS-servers.
Previously, repeatedly reported the discovery of the users of various information technology, acquired on eBay. For example, in August 2008 on-line auction for 35 pounds has been sold a computer containing nearly a million records of personal data of customers American Express, Natwest and Royal Bank of Scotland.