Have you sold, traded or thrown out a used printer in the last few years? If so, it’s possible you may also have given someone an opportunity to access personal and business information stored on the machine.
A recent CBS News investigation showed that the hard drives in copiers built since 2002 store document images that can be retrieved and printed later, after the machine has changed hands. While copiers pose the greatest risk, it turns out that some printers work the same way, storing the documents that you have scanned and copied. A well-used machine could hold hundreds or thousands of private records. Read More –>
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