Data miners
Their are unscrupulous types of people out their working for several companies that could find your hard drive when you throw it away. From the junk yard to the garbage men taking your thrown away drive can be done at several points. Their are even people who scour through trashes to find thrown away hard drives so they can steal the data on them. Getting secure hard data drive destruction is the best way to alleviate this issue and to recycle your drive which helps the environment simultaneously. You should take care to safe guard your data from these data miners.