After a hack: The process of restoring once-lost data

By Brandon Butler –

On the first Friday in August Mat Honan, a tech reporter with Wired magazine, got home after work and realized that almost his entire personal digital life had been hacked.

His laptop, phone and tablet had been wiped and his Google, Amazon, Apple and Twitter accounts had been compromised. His pictures, videos and other memories, including photos of his newborn daughter and of relatives that had since passed way, were feared gone forever because he had failed to back them up.

But it wasn’t so. Honan brought his MacBook Air to DriveSavers, which specializes in data recovery.

Here’s how DriveSavers did it. more> http://tinyurl.com/cxsct4k

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