An expert from the Laboratory for Practical Security Analysis of Jet Infosystems told us what he can do
According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, cybercriminals can easily gain access to confidential laptop data - neither a complete reinstallation of the system, nor the deletion of personal data will help.
According to the expert, an attacker canrecover deleted data. He spoke about cases where criminals did this on purchased disks and flash drives. Attackers also tried to make money from the data.
The expert said that before selling the laptopyou need to perform a full disk cleanup using specialized programs. All important data can be transferred to an external hard drive or cloud services. You can also change the hard drive in your computer to a new one.