Degraded VOIP phones can cause a very serious data breach. In fact, your old VOIP phones are extremely useful to fraudsters looking to take a bunch of money from your company.
First of all just what information can be like in a VOIP phone:
- Lists of your company’s contacts
- Recorded voice mails
- Call – logs. either call history, who called and who called you.
But one of the most troubling things left in a depreciated VOIP phone is its NUMBER. Or its old boss.
By this I mean that your old VOIP phone was recognized by your business associates and continues to be recognized by your business associates.
Not only that one sees your number on the screen but nowadays there are numerous intelligent systems that instantly recognize that it is you who is calling.
The security of a VOIP device:
There is almost none: A written-off VOIP phone from someone else you can just plug in like that and there is no password on it like there is on a computer or cell phone.
So if you hand over your depreciated VOIP phones for recycling – and you don’t have them destroyed – then anyone can impersonate you.
So one can just call and say they are calling on your behalf. This is giant practical for bottle pullers and fraudsters.
Advice from IT Recycling regarding old VOIP devices:
I think old VOIP phones should really be destroyed. IT Recycling has now included the destruction of VOIP phones in its price list.
There is actually no market for old VOIP phones, which is why – at least with us – the old VOIP phones will find their Waterloo in our shredder.
As far as I know, IT Recycling is the only certified data shredder that has the destruction of VOIP phones standard in its price list. So apparently this subject is not at all well known yet.
We can destroy VOIP devices both on site – and on a take away basis.
I also notice with our customers that people are still completely unaware of the security problems with old VOIP teostellen. Let’s not hope that things have to go badly wrong first….