You will be immersed for a week in all possible techniques used by hackers. That will open your eyes! When you see how easy it can be to break into someone else's system, you will think twice about putting your data somewhere in the cloud.The best part was that our teacher said: "Say not that you put your data in the cloud, but that you put it on s

We recently had a case like this, with an SSD that had been here for several months. Ultimately it turned out to be possible to access and remove the data. To our surprise, it turned out that 80% of the data was corrupt.Further investigation by the developer of our tools revealed that some SSDs use TLC-based memory chips. These memory chips store t

We recently received some SSD drives for recovery.First case: A customer with a 1 TB drive with many projects. At some point his computer freezes. He restarts the computer. Turns out a 100GB folder containing important data has gone missing. A scan for the data yields nothing, not even in RAW mode. Conclusion: The data has been deleted!Second case:

Till now Seagate Granada harddisk with head crash on the magnetic layer 0 could not be recovered, even when all other layers were unharmedNormally, Seagate harddisks from series 7200.11 on have two magnetic layers from which the drive can start. Is one layer damaged, then we can star

This MacBook witnessed a traffic accident up close. The hard disk was slightly bent, the read heads were stuck, and the rotation axis of the platter was bent.Despite all this, the data was saved...

Recently we got two harddrives of a server that has been under water for some hours.Our customer was a lawyers office with more than 20 employees.Due to the heavy rainstorms of the last weeks, the room where the server and his backup were located was flooded during the night. Only some hours later they could be rescued.Around noon the drives arrive

A customer came to us with an old Roland DM80 Disk Recorder.This device was used a long time ago to make and mix sound recordings and had a very good reputation. So good that these devices are still in use today (for more than 23 years). (see https://www.rapmag.com/273-1990s/93/aug93/1050-test-drive-the-roland-dm-80-multi-track-disk-recorder)Proble

Thanks to the research done by the GDRA (the datarecovery group we are member of) we have now extra possibilities to recover Seagate SSHD and Hitachi Arm (now part of Toshiba) disks.Both models are quite new and can sometimes be very difficult to recover.Now we have tools that are not available for the competition, that give us a tremendous advanta

We have recently encountered some hopeless cases.Our customers first went to their local IT store, asking to find lost data on their hard drive.< p>Without thinking further, a recovery was performed via software.They saw the data appear with name, and then copied everything back to the original disk, without verification.

At home, the customer v

If you suffered the loss of data on any type of media device that contains highly confidential information or if the company policy doesn't allow for the data carrier to be sent to our recovery facility (e.g. banks or government agencies) you can request a data recovery on site, one of our highly trained data recovery engineers will travel to y

Several websites were recently paralyzed by a large-scale botnet attack.This used previously unused equipment, such as surveillance cameras and baby monitors.The Internet of Things is is now developing is only going to make this worse.While the idea itself isn't a bad one to connect equipment to the Internet to run software updates or other applica