‘Destroyed’ Hard Drive Found At Flea Market

From Yahoo News comes this tidbit about a couple who got a very shocking phone call. Henry and Roma Gerbus received a phone call from a man named Ed claiming he had purchased their old hard drive at a flea market. They had previously taken their computer to Best Buy to have the hard drive replaced and were told that the store would destroy it. Now it has turned up at a flea market, still containing their personal information, such as bank account numbers and Social Security numbers. The Gerbus’ are a little perplexed and are very worried about identity theft.

How nice. First Best Buy uses Winternals without paying for it, and now they sell customers drives that they claim they destroyed. Check out the post at Slashdot.