The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard directs to “Destroy media containing cardholder data when it is no longer needed for business or legal reasons as follows: Render cardholder data on electronic media unrecoverable so that cardholder data cannot be reconstructed (for example, degaussing).”

-PCI DSS Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures, v1.2.1 pg 46.

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