99% of recycled cell phones still contain owner data

The vast majority of cell phones sent in for recycling aren't properly wiped clean, with a full 99 percent of them containing sensitive material when they're gotten rid of, including personal emails and financial information and logins.

The numbers come from Regenersis, a cell phone recycling outfit that processed two million handsets last year and tested a random sampling of the phones it's received in order to reach this shocking conclusion.

[via Yahoo Tech]

emily | 5:00 PM | Random Stats / Infographics |
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