“Recycled Electronic Waste Adds to Cybersecurity Concerns”

Improper disposal or destruction of recycled hardware devices raises cybersecurity concerns as such devices could still contain sensitive data that could be extracted by anyone. Electronic waste derives from inevitable device updates that are carried out by most companies every four to five years, also known as a tech refresh cycle. Data migrated to the cloud for storage is still vulnerable as traces of the data could still be present on the hardware from which it was originally stored, after its disposal. This article further discusses cybersecurity concerns pertaining to the improper destruction of recycled devices and what is being done to tackle this problem.

CIO Dive reports “Recycled Electronic Waste Adds to Cybersecurity Concerns”