Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets

(CBS) At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports almost every one of them holds a secret.

Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive - like the one on your personal computer - storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine.

In the process, it's turned an office staple into a digital time-bomb packed with highly-personal or sensitive data.

If you're in the identity theft business it seems this would be a pot of gold.

"The type of information we see on these machines with the social security numbers, birth certificates, bank records, income tax forms," John Juntunen said, "that information would be very valuable."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/19/eveningnews/main6412439.shtml

EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS

And this is a fucking big one.

and only copiers taken..:(

imagine the goldmine of info there:(

Absolutely no need to steal anything, it's all being given away. Including our health records. And bank records.

so the photo copy I made of my butt and sent around the office at the Christmas party a few years back is now making it's rounds with the ID thieves? :evilgrin:

I was wondering.

Jones in accounting's face..... :scared:

For some sort of internal audit purposes? For TSA requirements?

Next they'll say that all these multi-function copier/fax/printer machines are faxing duplicates to the FBI of every page they process, too.

:evilgrin:

that everybody in the copier resale buiness knows about this, and routinely wipes out the hard drives on machines they resell.

:think:

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