Is Your Copier Printer Loaded With Secrets?

(prHWY.com) July 22, 2012 - Solihull, NY -- July 21, 2012 - Nearly every Copier printer since 2002 has a hard drive, similar to your own computer. It stores images of everything ever, printed, scanned, faxed or emailed from your copier printer.

What have you scanned in the 6 months alone? Bank Details and Driving Licence to confirm your identity, a copy of your bank card for a hotel to confirm your booking, maybe you've scanned your address book into your computer, or you've printed off your passwords and log-ins for various websites? Maybe you've printed off receipts for items purchased on line and these receipts have your bank details, password, address and more?

Do you want these details falling into just anyone's hands?

It's only natural that your copier printer will come to an end, or you will find a better model to upgrade to and you will need to get rid of your old printer to replace it with a new copier printer. Pitney Bowes strongly recommend when purchasing a new copier printer from themselves, to replace an old one, you ensure that the hard drive is completely scrubbed.

Juntunes' Sacramento-based company Digital Copier Security have developed new software that can scrub data from the hard drives of copiers. Juntunes' is aware that people do not know how serious of a problem this is so he took CBS News to investigate.

CBS News & Juntunes' picked up 4 second hand printers reasonably cheaply and they got investigating. They didn't have to wait long - one company left a very important document on the glass screen itself!

After taking 30mins to pull the hard drives out of the copiers, then using forensic software programs (downloaded on the internet for free), they began to scan tens of thousands of documents in under 12hrs!

A printer copier from a New York Construction Company printed out designs of a building to be built near Ground Zero, along with over 90 pages of pay stubs stating names, addresses, social security numbers and over $40,000 worth of copied cheques.

An Insurance company's copier printer printed out over 300 pages of medical reports; drug prescription, blood test results and other documents with are potentially serious breaches of the federal privacy law.

These are extreme cases, and had the Copier Printers fallen into the wrong hands, it could have been a much worse outcome. This is why Pitney Bowes do recommend that when you get rid of an old copier printer, you make sure the hardware has been scrubbed!

Media Contact Details
Name: Hazel Cottrell
Company Name: i3Media
Town: Peterborough
Country: Cambridgeshire
Telephone Number: 01733231110
Email: hazel@i3media.co.uk
Language: English

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