New fines for data protection breaches, Article in Finance & Management Magazine 179. What about your photo copier?

According to the chairman of the Fraud Advisory Panel's Cybercrime Working Group there is the possibility that data can be taken from the memory of a photocopier. Files sent to a printer's memory ready for printing including attachments can and do get stored thus if a photocopier is destined for disposal then along goes potentially sensitive data too."

More modern copiers are also basically computers and so as with a computer on a network can be compromised.

Therefore by way of advise ensure data is inaccessible, clear the memory, secure network connections, change panel passwords and if possible destroy or wipe the hard drive/memory.

Like most people, I had no idea that copiers can store every document ever copied.

Copiers will in future be subject to the same data security as computers on our network.