Warehouse full of copy machines investigation find

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“Social Security numbers, birth certificates, bank records, income tax forms”

“Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains one of these, a hard drive. Like the one on your personal computer, it stores an image of every document scanned, copied, or emailed by the machine.”

Investigators bought some of the machines to see what they would find on it

“The results were stunning. From the sex crimes unit, detailed domestic violence complaints, and a list of wanted sex offenders. On a second machine from the Buffalo PD Narcotics Unit, we found a list of targets in a major drug raid.

The third machine from a New York construction company spit out design plans for a building near Ground Zero in Manhattan. 95 pages of pay stubs with names, addresses and Social Security numbers and $40,000 in copy checks.

But it wasn't until we hit print on the fourth machine from a New York insurance company that we obtained the most disturbing documents. 300 pages of individual medical records, everything from drug prescriptions, to blood test results, to a cancer diagnosis, a potentially serious breach of federal privacy law. You're talking about potentially ruining somebody's life”

They also find these machines are being sold overseas with the hard drives still installed

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