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Photocopeirs

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.

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.