A method for emergency data destruction includes: identifying, by a data identification module, one or more data files for emergency destruction stored in one or more data storage devices; identifying, by the data identification module, at least one file system utilized by the one or more data storage devices; overwriting, by a data generation module, a header of each of the one or more data files, wherein the header of each of the one or more data files is identified based on the at least one file system; truncating, by a data modification module, a file size of each of the one or more data files; and deleting, by a data destruction module, each of the one or more data files, wherein the overwriting and truncating steps are performed prior to deletion of each of the one or more data files.
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