![]() ![]() In addition, there where also the 109 hard drives which had been removed from servers before auction and one large pallet of 400-500 used hard drives from various manufacturers. Suggesting that he had direct access to these and not through the auction as the seller initially suggested. In fact, the seller turned out to have “18 DELL Poweredge servers, as well as at least two Supermicro server’s running StarWind iSCSI Software that NCIX had used to back up their hard disks.” Not only did the seller posses three unwiped servers from NCIX, he also had around “300 desktop computers from NCIX’s corporate offices and retails stores”. And sure enough, what he found was quite shocking. Doering did his due diligence and followed up to verify. What is surprising however, is that after some probing, the seller divulged that the data on these servers were actually unwiped, and that he actually had three servers in his possession. Prior to NCIX shutting down, their assets were sold off through this company. This includes a Database Server from NCIX and a Database Reporting Server, allegedly legally obtained via Able Auctions. However, as Travis Doering of Privacy Fly found out, the company did not go quietly away without doing some damage to their customer’s security first.ĭoering recounts meeting up with a Craigslist seller claiming to have NCIX’ Database servers for only $1500 CAD. They were the premiere PC hardware retail store in Canada and even did a sizable business on the other side of the border. Millions of Canadian and American Consumers at RiskĬanadian retailer NCIX filed for bankruptcy and closed 10 months ago. ![]()
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