Unclean Military Hard Drives Sold On eBay

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday May 7, 2009 @12:44AM from the they-should-know-better dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Daily Mail reports, 'Highly sensitive details of a US military missile air defense system were found on a second-hand hard drive bought on eBay. The test launch procedures were found on a hard disk for the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) ground to air missile defense system, used to shoot down Scud missiles in Iraq. The disk also contained security policies, blueprints of facilities, and personal information on employees (including social security numbers) belonging to technology company Lockheed Martin — who designed and built the system.' Scary that they did not wipe it to Department of Defense standards, which I believe is wiping the whole disk and then writing 1010 all over it."

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Re:please... by zombie_monkey · 2009-05-07 01:10 · Score: 0, Troll

> Should someone win, they get to keep the drive. They also will receive $500.00 USD and the title "King (or Queen) of Data Recovery".

Oh my, some schmuck on the internet is offering to send us a used hard drive and promises to give us $500 (in another place on the same site, $40). Our company must definitely do this!