The phrase "wipe data" is correct and commonly used in written English, particularly in technical or computer-related contexts.
Example: Before selling your old phone, be sure to wipe all your personal data from the device to protect your privacy.
Most don't know how to wipe data, but that's the first thing certified recycling should provide.
Some handsets allow you to locate it and lock it remotely, wipe data remotely and prevent it being restored to factory settings to unlock it without authorisation.
It takes in all kinds of electronics from businesses that pay it to wipe data and recycle — some 257,000 items last year.
These can detect the kinds of gadgets that are gaining access to a firm's network and wipe data from those that are lost.
Not only does MDM automatically configure all your Stanford data, it also allows you to remotely lock and wipe data from the device if it's lost or stolen, detect when a device has been jailbroken, block intruders, and more.
While it is possible to wipe data and network settings on the Time Capsule and return it to its out-of-the-box factory state, you can also do a "soft reset" to go in and change the password.
Launched on June 28 , 2017— Ukraine's Constitution Day — the virus wiped data from the computers of banks, energy firms, senior government officials and an airport in Ukraine.
Shortly before Thanksgiving that year, North Korea-linked hackers wiped data from thousands of Sony computers and stole confidential emails whose disclosure forced the resignation of a top executive.
And it joined the United States to blame Russia for the 2017 NotPetya malware campaign that wiped data from computers at banks and energy firms.
The June 2017 attack, delivered through a mock ransomware virus dubbed NotPetya, wiped data from the computers of banks, energy firms, senior government officials and an airport.
Last summer, more than 30,000 computers at the state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco were destroyed when a virus wiped data from the hard drives.
