{"id":502,"date":"2010-05-05T08:02:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T08:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lessradiation.co.uk\/?p=502"},"modified":"2010-05-05T08:02:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T08:02:49","slug":"photocopiers-a-gold-mine-for-identity-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/05\/05\/photocopiers-a-gold-mine-for-identity-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"Photocopiers &#8211; a Gold Mine for Identity Thieves."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an interesting article about office photocopiers. All the larger models made post-2002 have hard drives inside them. Each time you copy a document it saves a copy to the internal hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers were able to recover all sorts of business, legal, medical &#038; personal information from a random sample of machines. Even if a machine has a wipe button it often just wipes the index and not the actual file from the drive. <\/p>\n<p>Using the free Testdisk forensic recovery software you can most likely retrieve documents the same way you would from a PC&#8217;s hard drive or camera&#8217;s SD memory card.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=6412572n&#038;tag=contentMain;contentBody\">CBS News Story<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgsecurity.org\/wiki\/TestDisk_Download\">Testdisk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an interesting article about office photocopiers. All the larger models made post-2002 have hard drives inside them. Each time you copy a document it saves a copy to the internal hard drive. Researchers were able to recover all sorts of business, legal, medical &#038; personal information from a random sample of machines. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}