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New Jersey Hard Drive Data Security Breach A Reminder to Us All


11 March 2011

Data Breach reminds of need for data protection When the State of New Jersey was preparing to put a bunch of old computer equpiment up for auction to the public, it didn’t realize it was about to auction off the private data of members of that public. State Comptroller Matthew Boxer was reviewing the sale of hundreds of computers that is a usual occurrence in the state office when he discovered that the “hard drives in 79% of the machines had tons of private data on them” still! The sale was stopped thanks to the auditor’s investigation, but there is little doubt that the state had already been selling computers with confidential data on them for some time.

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Data Recovery Myth Busting: Hard Drive Platters


17 November 2010

We come across misconceptions about what we do all the time.

Some keep coming up time and time again, and we thought that we better take charge and dispel some of the ideas out there.

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Happy New Year 2010


31 December 2009

We here at CBL would like thank you for selecting us as your data recovery service provider for 2009.

Looking back on another year we were lucky enough to work on many unique projects. Despite the ever changing technology landscape we here at CBL strive to continuously develop and...

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