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Best Buy Learns That Data Protection Can Be A Customer Issue
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2006-06-15

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A Best Buy customer learns the hard way that data protection is not their top priority.

When a Cincinnati man brought his hard-drive to Best Buy to be repaired, he was told that he couldn’t have his old hard-drive back. But fear not, he was told: the drive would be made useless by having holes drilled in it.

A few months later, the fully intact drive is purchased at a flea market in Chicago for $25.

Read the entire StorefrontBacktalk.com story here.

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