How Secured is your data in cyber world?

When America is thinking of having an American data privacy and protection act that is American Data Privacy and Protection Act and various States are agreeable to the same and various Countries in the world are thinking to have a privacy acts the world was surprised and shocked to know one recent development.

We have recently seen shocking news when a German personal who is supposed to be one cyber security personnel found a shoe-box type device was available on eBay at the rate of $ 149 approx. and he purchases the same shoe-box type device at $68 and when German personal receive the device that contains biometric and Iris data of 2632 people who were supposed to be the citizen of Afghanistan and other Asia country and some biometric information were of some suspected terrorist.

Even when the German personal analyzed the device in terms of SEEK II i.e. Secure Electronic Enrolment Kit Metadata it was seen that the device was last used in 2012 in Asia.

Now the million-dollar question is how can a tiny device travelled down from Asia to eBay i.e. one e-commerce portal. Now you can understand how secured your data is at this cyber world.

Be careful that when you sell or dispose of your device containing your personally identifiable data. Be sure about formatting or erasing your data prior handing over the same.