Photocopy Machines in the Office may have your Personal Data

[killerz]

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If you have a photocopier in your office that you and your colleagues have been using for years to make paper copies of important documents, here’s an important fact that may surprise some of you.Photocopy Machines in the Office may have your Personal Data

Photocopiers Have a Hard-Disk

Most photo copy machines, and even the newer all-in-one print-copy-scan-fax machines, have a built-in hard drive that stores a digital image of nearly every document that’s copied or scanned through these machines.
The machines store this information to improve performance. If you want ten carbon-copies, the machine would scan the document only once, store the scan in the memory and then print copies from the memory directly.
If a fraudster manages to pull out the disk from the photocopier, it can be real “goldmine†as he’ll probably find everything there from employee credit card numbers to resumes to faxes and much more.

Source digitalinspiration

I was shocked to learn this, and i guess most of you also dont know. Just how easily one can get your personal data from a machine . And uses of this data ?? , dont even talk abt that.

 

[Lord Nemesis]

Only the high end AIO's actually have a HDD. They are like low end computers on their own that connect directly to a lan. Most other copier machines make do with RAM and small amount of ROM. The copiers shown in the vid are all AIO's. Even if someone gets hold of a HDD, its not like he can just connect it to a computer and get data of it in the form of scanned documents. But yes there is indeed a risk if these HDD land in the wrong hands.