Ooops! Motorola and Woot sold refurbished tablets with personal data still on them!

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Bokeh wrote: »

Motorola, Woot 'fess up to reselling uncleared Xoom tablets

Wow that is crazy. I'm wondering what's going to happen as a result of this.

shouldnt the customer have cleared all the data before returning it anyway??

pruspeter wrote: »

shouldnt the customer have cleared all the data before returning it anyway??

You would think. Unless they had these exchanged via shipping or something. I wipe and verify every time I upgrade my phone for example.

"may not have been completely cleared of the original owner's data prior to resale."

I assume that also includes the original owner's Malware too.

Yeah when I sold my original iPad and iPhones I always wiped them, rebooted and made sure they were wiped.