Thoroughshred are pleased to announce that Managing Director Graeme Coombs has been elected as The Secretary of UKSSA (United Kingdom Security Shredding Association) at the Industry leading Association’s Annual General Meeting in London on 24th November 2010. Thoroughshred, for all your Confidential data destruction requirements

Four community hospitals are investigating how thousands of patient health records, some containing Social Security numbers and sensitive medical diagnoses, ended up in a pile at a public dump. The unshredded records included pathology reports with patients’ names, addresses, and results of breast, bone, and skin cancer tests, as well as the results of lab work following miscarriages. By law, medical records and documents containing personal identifying information must be disposed of in a way that protects privacy, and leaving…

The only way to stop fraudsters stealing information from old computer hard drives is by destroying them completely, a study has found. Which? Computing magazine recovered 22,000 “deleted” files from eight computers purchased on eBay. Freely available software can be used to recover files that users think they have permanently deleted. While Which? recommends smashing hard drives with a hammer, experts say for most consumers that’s a step too far. Criminals source old computers from internet auction sites or in…