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Certificate of Data Destruction

This certifies that InterConnection, a 501c(3) nonprofit organization, received donated computers and hard drives from the

organization listed below. All equipment is now the property of InterConnection. InterConnection’s professional liability insurance

and Cyber Security liability insurance covers losses and damage caused by data theft or loss of data from the received hard drives

and digital media storage devices. InterConnection carried out the following procedures to ensure that customer proprietary

information was totally removed from computer hard drives that were donated to the InterConnection.

Transportation and Storage Security

All equipment listed in the donation receipt was received by an InterConnection authorized personnel, and stored in a secure,

Crush: Hard drives were placed inside a specialized machine and a conical punch inside the unit delivered 12,000 pounds of

hydraulic force to the drive, causing catastrophic trauma to the hard drive’s chassis, destroying its internal platter, and then

shredded according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Special Publication 800-88 Guidelines for

Media Sanitization.

Shred: Shredded according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Special Publication 800-88

Guidelines for Media Sanitization.

1-Pass Wipe: Software was used on hard drives to overwrite all addressable storage and indexing locations on the drive one

time with zeros (0x00) and then verified.