When high-profile companies like Comcast and DuPont need to make sure their no-longer-used computers and phones are smashed to bits, they turn to CyberCrunch, an electronics recycling and data destruction service, writes Joseph N. DiStefano for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Their two plants, one in Aston and one in Greensburg, Pa., shred the devices into confetti beyond the means of retrieval for data thieves.

What’s left is then sold to recyclers.  

Joe Connors, head of business development at Aston-based CyberCrunch said his company is betting that working-from-home, the Internet of Things, and smartphones communicating with “cloud” servers will boost demand for destroying what gets left behind.

They’ve built new shredders, like the Cyber 10G Pulverizer, with just that in mind.  

Old devices and proprietary data need to be destroyed for places like Penn and Jefferson, Comcast and DuPont, Clarivate and Sungard, and 900 Wawa stores.

CyberCrunch has 25 employees, a newly-enlarged 45,000-square-foot facility in Aston, and a 45,000-square-foot center with larger machines in Greensburg,

Companies pay about $4,000 a year for disposal. CyberCrunch earned less than $5 million last year, but it has been growing since Ben Franklin Technology Partners and other investors provided $325,000 five years ago.

Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer about the work of CyberCrunch.