Japan local gov't hard drives with personal info sold in online auction english.kyodonews.net

The hard drives had been used for data sharing servers at the prefectural government office and were replaced with new ones in the spring.
The prefectural government had deleted the data, but the successful bidder of the hard drives was able to restore them by using special software.
The government is trying to locate the remaining nine hard drives, which were also sold online from July to August.
The data servers have been leased from Fujitsu Leasing Co., which commissioned Broadlink Co. to scrap the replaced hard drives.
We would like to review our contract with Fujitsu Leasing so that data in hard drives will be deleted through physical destruction."