{"id":203,"date":"2021-06-16T08:28:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T08:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2021-06-16T08:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T08:28:48","slug":"the-mcdonalds-data-breach-what-went-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/the-mcdonalds-data-breach-what-went-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The McDonalds Data Breach: What Went Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the race to balance productivity and social distancing for companies during the pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/resource-recycling.com\/e-scrap\/2021\/06\/10\/experts-explore-three-pressing-issues-facing-the-industry\/\">a recent survey from Ernst<\/a> found that \u201c78% of respondents believe COVID-19 prompted their organizations to make unnecessary short-term investments in technology, leaving the companies at risk of data being stored on a wide range of devices.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The breakout of post-pandemic disposal of these devices was eye-opening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>28% said they\u2019d be erased and resold<\/li><li>27% said they\u2019d be erased and reused internally<\/li><li>16% said they\u2019d be stored in the office until needed<\/li><li>\u00a012% said they\u2019d be erased and recycled<\/li><li>\u00a09% said they\u2019d be sent to an ITAD provider<\/li><li>\u00a04% said they\u2019d they remain in use\/replace older equipment<\/li><li>\u00a03% said they\u2019d be erased and donated<\/li><li>\u00a01% said they\u2019d undergo physical destruction without prior data erasure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s alarming to see that only 9% would be sent to an ITAD provider. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/11\/business\/mcdonalds-data-breach\/index.html\">While McDonalds continues to battle the latest data breach, <\/a>they made the right moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>They invested heavily in data security<\/li><li>Payment information wasn\u2019t accessed by the hack<\/li><li>Speed &#8211; they found these breaches and dealt with them swiftly.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Finding data from remote workers is a bit like herding cats\u2026 make sure your company has a security plan moving forward for the secure destruction of hard drives and smart devices by using services like Ship n Destroy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Use Ship n Destroy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don\u2019t want the hassle (or the risk\u2026) of a DIY hard drive or solid state drive wipe or destruction, let us safely and securely destroy your hard drives, solid state drives, and smart devices with our simple Ship-n-Destroy process. Quick, easy and affordable in our NAID-certified facility. Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/shipndestroy.com\">https:\/\/shipndestroy.com<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the race to balance productivity and social distancing for companies during the pandemic, a recent survey from Ernst found that \u201c78% of respondents believe COVID-19 prompted their organizations to make unnecessary short-term investments in technology, leaving the companies at risk of data being stored on a wide range of devices.\u201d\u00a0 The breakout of post-pandemic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/the-mcdonalds-data-breach-what-went-right\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}