EACR Inc. protects your business, your clients, and your reputation with fully secure data destruction services. Whether you need hard drive shredding, data wiping, or complete IT asset disposal, we ensure sensitive data is permanently and compliantly erased.
Improper disposal of data-bearing devices can lead to serious consequences—data breaches, regulatory fines, legal liabilities, and reputational damage. Simply deleting files or formatting a drive isn’t enough. Information can often still be recovered unless it’s thoroughly and professionally destroyed.
Compliance is critical across many industries. Our services follow the strictest standards, ensuring you stay protected at every level. In fact, studies show that 1 in 3 retired hard drives still contain sensitive, retrievable data—a risk your organization can’t afford to take.
We offer on-site and off-site hard drive destruction to ensure data is irretrievable.
Our team uses software that meets DoD Standards for secure data erasure, with Certificates of Recycling provided.
Need to witness the process? We can come to your location and destroy devices on-site with mobile equipment.
In today’s digital world, improper data disposal can come with massive financial and reputational costs. The average cost of a data breach in the United States reached $9.36 million in 2024, making it the highest in the world (IBM, 2024). Worse still, 51% of those costs are incurred within the first year, long before most businesses can fully recover.
Failing to destroy sensitive data doesn’t just risk compliance violations—it opens the door to cybercrime. Nearly 70% of breaches in 2023 were traced back to organized crime, and 95% were financially motivated, showing how high the stakes truly are (Verizon, 2025).
Healthcare organizations, legal firms, and financial institutions are especially vulnerable. In fact, healthcare data breaches have been the most expensive for 14 years in a row, with average breach costs hovering near $9.77 million (IBM, 2024).
Without secure data destruction, sensitive information can live on in retired hard drives, servers, and storage devices—posing long-term risks. EACR Inc. eliminates that risk by ensuring your data is permanently destroyed in full compliance with industry standards.
From hospitals to law firms, organizations across every sector handle sensitive data that must be protected. EACR Inc. provides secure data destruction solutions that meet the unique compliance requirements of healthcare providers, government agencies, educational institutions, and financial services.
Whether you’re disposing of medical records, student information, or corporate IP, failing to properly destroy data can lead to costly consequences. We help you stay ahead of regulations while keeping your reputation and client trust intact.
Data Destruction
Data destruction is the process of permanently erasing, wiping, or physically destroying data stored on electronic devices so that it cannot be recovered or misused. This includes hard drives, servers, mobile devices, USBs, backup tapes, and more.
Improper disposal of data-bearing equipment can lead to serious consequences, including data breaches, identity theft, regulatory fines, and reputational damage. Complete data destruction ensures that sensitive information is completely and irreversibly removed, protecting your organization and your customers.
Data breaches are more common than ever. In 2023, the U.S. alone experienced more than 3,200 publicly reported data breaches, up from just 447 in 2012. With rising cybersecurity threats and internal mishandling, secure data disposal is a crucial part of any risk management plan.
Any device that stores digital information should be properly recycled. This includes hard drives, solid-state drives (SSDs), laptops, servers, smartphones, tablets, USB drives, and backup tapes.
No. Deleting files or reformatting a drive does not remove data—it simply removes the file path. The data itself can often still be recovered. Only certified data wiping or physical destruction guarantees complete erasure.
Data wiping uses specialized software to overwrite data, often making the device reusable. Physical destruction involves shredding or crushing the device to make recovery impossible. Both are compliant when performed to the appropriate standards.
Yes. For organizations requiring added security or chain-of-custody assurance, we offer on-site destruction services. Our team comes fully equipped to destroy your data-bearing devices at your location.
Yes—at EACR Inc., we pair secure data destruction with environmentally responsible electronics recycling. Once your data is destroyed, we recycle the devices to divert e-waste from landfills.
