So a family member put a pc tower in a box and I told them not to do anything to it, by the time I had came back, they had threw away the pc tower with the hard drive inside(they were not seperated like the hard drive was still inside the pc tower which was placed in a box)... How bad is this? I'm afraid of someone doxxing me, using my name, or even doing some weird crap(with ai) with some photos(family pictures, vacation pics, and pics before going out to hang out) , and just a lot of embarrassing stuff. i'm pursuing a public career and would hate for this to affect me in the future. Very upset by this situation
edit: they threw it with the trash where actual trash from the house goes. Not a dumpster, Like a trash can which gets emptied by a garage truck. There was a password on the computer to login. The pc hadn't worked for 3 years crashed and never turned on (crashed when deleting and uploading files,never worked after that and was extremely slow. )The hard drive was 13 years old and the device was 13 years old as well.
for future purposes what parts of pc am i suppose to take out so no one can access data?
edit: they threw it with the trash where actual trash from the house goes. Not a dumpster, Like a trash can which gets emptied by a garage truck. There was a password on the computer to login. The pc hadn't worked for 3 years crashed and never turned on (crashed when deleting and uploading files,never worked after that and was extremely slow. )The hard drive was 13 years old and the device was 13 years old as well.
for future purposes what parts of pc am i suppose to take out so no one can access data?
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