Destroy Data

[ Johannesburg, 19 June 2008 ] - More than 10 million people in the US are victims of identity theft every year leading to losses of about $50 billion (R400 billion), says Justin Yurek, president of identity theft protection and rehabilitation company ID Watchdog.

Today, every business must address what to do with data on IT equipment when it reaches end of lease or end of life. Failure to protect and destroy sensitive and confidential records and files can have catastrophic consequences to a business on numerous levels. Financial loss, irreparable damage to a company’s reputation, as well as civil and criminal liability for directors and officers can result from data that is accessed from day to day records that would normally exist on computer hard drives that should have been destroyed at the end of their use.