Dangers of second-hand PC market
The BBC television programme Real Story showed that Bank account details of potentially thousands of Britons are being sold in Third World PC markets.
‘The information is contained on the hard drives of personal computers exported to Nigeria, along with thousands of pages of other confidential material.
Hard drives - the devices that computers use to store all sorts of data - are very easy to get hold of and there is a genuine market for people upgrading their computers with our cast-offs.
Some 23,000 tonnes of electronic waste, the equivalent of about 750,000 computers, is flooding out of the UK and into the developing world every year, according to the Environment Agency.
They end up in computer markets in cities such as Lagos, Nigeria, where you will find second hand parts of PCs from Britain and all over the world.’
Sector Forensics will wipe your hard disk for £20
if it is still contained within a machine (the operating system does not need to be working)
If the hard disk has been removed from its case the cost will be £25
Bulk wiping services can be negotiated.
