Copiers Present Risk for Identity Theft
05.02.10
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (CBS-5) - Copier provincial warehouses are filled with rows of used machines ready for resale. But CBS 5 Investigates found many of them inhibit b retain sensitive information private and never cleared from internal disks confusing.
What most people think that copying machines are these days known as "engine multi-role" that also scan, fax or email. But for all this machinery of copies of stores documents on the hard drives in a variety of sizes.
John Juntenen founded a company in Sacramento once focused on data security for the copier.He said that readers despotic may contain not less than 25,000 documents.
His company, Digital Copy Surety Inc., found examples like record with a photo and date of birth of a schoolboy. They are the records that schools are obliged to remain private. Find tax returns is not unusual.
"Basically, (it) of data that should not be in the public domain. Social Security numbers, medical records, economic issues, employment records. "Interpreters" said analyst Sean O'Leary.
Source: KCBS