Technicians recover microwaved USB Memory Stick
November 2, 2008 by admin · Comments Off on Technicians recover microwaved USB Memory Stick
VenSys Limited have proved that microwaving a USB memory stick doesn’t mean the device is unrecoverable. Earlier today we received two devices that were left in a microwave by a customer as an anti theft measure. The sticks were left separate to the company laptop to ensure that even if the laptop was stolen the data on the sticks wouldn’t be taken with it.
However, disaster struck, when the customers partner came down in the morning and turned on the microwave to heat up the morning bottle for the baby.
One of the devices was a Kingston Data Traveler device with a plastic outer casing and despite melting of the plastic around the internal board and the chip appearing to sustain a slight level of damage the device was recovered.
Unfortunately even our expertise proved unable to recover the second device which had a metal outer casing.