Beware of the photocopier – it has a memory too!

Jun
2010

Most people don’t know it – but one of the greatest breaches of personal privacy – leading to social embarrassment or identity theft – can come by way of the office photocopier. That’s because the hard drive can retain images of every document copied, and be available to whoever takes possession when the copier is returned from lease, or resold. This video provides disturbing evidence of police and medical records being retrieved after unsuspecting police and medical workers disposed of the office copier!

Video Submitted by: Bill White

Comments

7 comments

Dave Bugo

May 18, 2010 at 8:37 pm

Amazing, never thought of this.

Randy Bushey

May 19, 2010 at 7:48 pm

This is a significant issue in protecting against “identity theft” -RB

Kevin McTiernan

May 20, 2010 at 7:10 pm

A real eye-opener! I can’t imagine the amount of confidential information that can get into the wrong hands.

Graham Robinson

May 21, 2010 at 2:38 pm

This is amazing. I work in the computer field and I never thought about the images being stored. I can’t believe you have to pay $500 to have software to purge the harddrive. You would think that would be manditory.

Bill White

May 21, 2010 at 11:12 pm

I was blown away by the potential risk here. When I sold copiers, there was no memory at all. But with the digital age came hard drives, flash memories etc etc etc.
Can you imagine the number of companies and government agencies that have leased and turned in their equipment to upgrade, NOT KNOWING that their information has been stored. This is truly and eye-opener.

Graeme Pollard

June 7, 2010 at 9:42 pm

Yes, ppl tend to forget this..
they also tend to forget to log out of secure sites on unsecure computers

then they buy million dollar policies in identity insurance..

i wonder if they do this on purpose???

Not like no one ever thought of such a scam before