Corporate secrets for sale.For less than the price of a fast-food lunch, a technology security firm was able to buy hard drives containing sensitive data from online auctions. Pointsec Mobile Technologies, based in Stockholm, found it was able to read information on seven out of 10 hard drives it purchased on public auctions such as eBay, in spite of the claim that all hard drives had been wiped clean or reformatted. As part of a study, The Life Cycle of a Lost Laptop, Pointsec purchased 100 drives and laptops Dom public auctions and Internet sites, including eBay. One hard drive contained "highly sensitive Adj. 1. highly sensitive - readily affected by various agents; "a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock"; "a sensitive colloid is readily coagulated" information from one of the largest financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. groups, with pension plans, customer databases, financial information, payroll records payroll record, n a printed form on which detailed records are kept of the amounts of money paid to auxiliaries. The record has columns for all the necessary tax deductions so that a detailed record is available for tax reporting and cost accounting. , personnel details, log-in codes, and admin passwords for their secure Intranet site," including customers' e-mail addresses, dates of birth, home addresses, telephone numbers and other highly confidential information Noun 1. confidential information - an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" steer, tip, wind, hint, lead , Pointsec said in a statement. "Even when companies or individuals believe they have wiped the hard drive clean, it is blatantly clear how easy it is to retrieve sensitive information from them both during their current lifetime and beyond it," Peter Larsson Peter Larsson may be:
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