Data Recovery Services

Don’t go near these guys.
It appears to be a Russian couple based out of Grapevine, Texas and our business dealings with them have ended up with them being fraudulent and extorting us for more money when we simply asked for the hard drives back.
Data Recovery Services has fake offices all over the United States. The one in Seattle is staffed by two rental receptionists with no real office. All of their phone numbers are VOIP and hard to trace. But this couple has a temper, yell a lot over the phone, and make mistakes. We’re working with Seattle detectives, a private investigator, the AG’s office and a lawyer to track them down and have them prosecuted for theft of corporate property, extortion and fraud.
They took 8 of our hard drives from our server, said it would cost $ 5000 to fix, then upcharged us to $ 6,600 but told us they could reliably retrieve the data. 2 weeks later they tell us it will be another $ 12,000 to $ 25,000 to retrieve the data. We asked for diagnostic reports showing us what they were seeing and all they took was a screenshot of the rebuilt volume.
At this point, we knew this was fraud and asked for our hard drives back. They said come the next day. We did. Then come at the end of the week. No dice. And all the while it was let’s make a deal, and lowering the price, or if we give the hard drives back we will destroy the data and the drives will be useless. A bad experience all around.
We finally went to the police and are working on getting the drives back and possibly our money legally, but this company is a complete scam.
It may be the very same company featured in this LA News report: