How is information stored on blackberry torch?

I have a blackberry torch that my daughter threw into our cats water dish. I am selling it on ebay for parts but since it will not turn on i can not erase anything on it. I took my sim card as well as my micro sd out of it, but is there any information saved to the actual phone? Such as emails,fb info, passwords. Is there anyway for them to get the info off it it since it does have water damage?How is information stored on blackberry torch?A BlackBerry smartphone does not normally save any information on the SIM card, and the microSD card is generally used just to store media (Pictures, videos, etc). All of the contacts/calendar/messages/etc are stored on the memory within the device itself.



If the phone has sustained water damage, it is unlikely that the data contained within will be salvagable, but it is possible that some of the contents of the BlackBerry smartphone's data store could be recovered if someone spent enough time trying to do so. I personally wouldn't be too worried about it unless the calendar/contacts/email messages contained extremely sensitive/confidential information.



(Note: Your email account passwords are not stored on the device, so there is no risk of these becoming compromised, in addition, all the saved passwords on your device for applications should be encrypted (facebook/MSN Messenger/etc), so these would also be very difficult to recover).



My suggestion is that you get your data plan moved to a new device or turned off before selling the device on eBay. If you leave your current data plan on, and someone "fixes" the device before you let your carrier know, your email would likely still continue to be delivered to it.



If you are feeling particularly paranoid about it, and you could also change your facebook, and instant messenger (MSN, Yahoo, etc) passwords.