I know what you're thinking...enough with the emails! But this post is not meant to be a political statement, it is simply meant to show you just what the unclaimed electronics in your lost and found may contain. Imagine if one of Secretary Clinton's devices were lost on your property. Would your policies have made sure they were wiped of all data? According to one article on the subject, "if Clinton’s old smartphones were lost, the information in her emails would be accessib

A few weeks ago, we were contacted by a hotel which had been forced to come to the stark realization that the mishandling of unclaimed electronic devices can be, at best, embarrassing. The hotel had donated its’ smartphones to a local charity. The charity immediately organized a local auction and sold all the devices; no testing or clearing was done. One smartphone buyer noticed that the device he purchased still contained the original owners’ personal and confidential inform

In October of 2015 we let you know about a unique request we received from a law enforcement partner of ours. Ken Lininger of the Winter Garden Police Department, asked if we could provide a a smartphone to be used to duplicate a damaged phone so detectives could obtain the information it contained. We did and here's what happened afterward. Ken writes: "In April 2015, the Winter Garden Police Department was involved in a Homicide, in which the victim’s cell phone had been sh

Although the news has been filled with horror stories about hacking groups who are responsible for breaches or free apps that contain malware that sends private information back to its developer, the fact is, in the past decade most data breaches were actually caused by device loss. That according to a new study by Trend Micro. Over the last decade, lost devices account for 41% of all breaches compared to 25% caused by hacking and malware. Companies often overlook the sensiti