Expert: Awan-Schultz Hard Drive Data Likely Recoverable

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A data recovery expert believes the information on the smashed computer hard drives recovered from the home of former Democrat IT staffer Imran Awan are likely recoverable

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(WASHINGTON, DC) During interview with the Daily Caller, Tom Hakim, an engineering supervisor for WereCoverData.com, a New York-based lab that specializes in difficult digital retrieval, said odds are good the Federal law enforcement authorities may have already recovered and read whatever was on those hard drives.

“It depends on what happens, but even if it is hit with a hammer, it probably doesn’t damage the platters that actually hold the data, which remains recoverable,” Mr. Hakim said. “In most cases, it’s very likely” the information on a smashed hard drive can be recovered “in two or three days, maybe a week.” His lab, which does extensive work for law enforcement and Fortune 500 corporations, has also recovered data from disks that were in fires and that had been submerged in water.

That may be very bad news for Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s former information technology (IT) aide, Pakistani-born Imran Awan. He and his younger brothers Abid and Jamal, his wife Hina Alvi and his best friend Rao Abbas are criminal suspects in a federal investigation first made public in February into abuse of the congressional IT servers, including the possible transfer of data, emails http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/13/house-hacking-suspects-could-read-every-email-dozens-of-congressmen-sent-and-received/ and files from the offices of dozens of House Democrats. Imran had worked for Wasserman Schultz — who resigned in July 2016 as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee after its IT system was hacked — since 2005. His relatives and friend had also worked on and off as IT aides, being paid collectively more than $4 million from 2009 to 2016.