Today, February 18 (14:39)
a study conducted by the company ESET showed that each year in the UK laundries killed 22 266 USB memory and 973 mobile phones. In addition, only half of those devices back to their owners. The test results clearly indicate that users do not attach too much importance to the security of data stored on memory cards. This means that every year die vast amount of personal and business data, often unprotected.
Studies have shown that every month the employees of each of the laundry in the UK are up to 4 memory sticks. It is amazing that only 53 percent left thumb drives thus returned to the owners. It is not known what happened to the other USB storage devices, so the files and documents stored on these devices.
According to Kamil Sadkowski analyst threats ESET, private photos or movies in the hands of the wrong people may be published on the Internet or used to blackmail the individuals concerned. If it is corporate data, the consequences can be serious – for both companies and employees. The company may lose the project was working, and the employee can be fired because of the loss of such important information.
The results give special attention to security issues USB memory. Experts advise to take extra care when storing valuable and private data on portable storage devices. It should also consider encrypting USB memory that after falling into the wrong hands, your private data is always kept safe.
Other items you could find laundry staff brought in the clothes cleaning is 1600 pounds, dentures, chips, and also … a dead rat.
study was conducted on a sample of 500 self-service laundries and in the UK in November 2015. The results were extrapolated to the whole year and several thousand British laundry.
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