You could give away your complete personal identity on a single carelessly discarded diskette. Most financial programs will back up data to removable media such as diskettes, memory cards, and more. Removable media often has the habit of getting misplaced or discarded. Identity thieves know this and make it an easy target.


Deleting or Formatting External Hard Drives DOES NOT erase the Data!
When you delete a file, document, or any other information from your floppy disk, jumpdrive, diskette, zip drive, memory stick, and other removable media, it isn't gone! The information is still there, and is accessible to identity thieves.