quote:Originally posted by Art Post:
copiers can be gold mines for identity thieves. Indeed they can.
Well.... not really. I do agree there is a "concern" about your info left on the copier. However, the vast majority of copiers will have little or nothing of value and it'd take me a significant amount of time to determine if the copier had anything worth taking.
Give that I'd have to pay at LEAST $300 (as in the CBS story) for just the CHANCE to find out if there may be some shred of info there, I think it's very doubtful any identity thief would pursue this.
Even if they did, it would never match the amount of data stolen directly from companies through various forms of hacking/social engineering.
I also agree with SSG. Not much chance that you'd buy 4 machines at random and then find out that you hit the jackpot with a police sex crimes division, a health care company and an architecture firm with plans of a building near ground zero, all on the day CBS decided to follow you with a camera.
I'm thinking he had to know up front where they came from and picked them for that reason.