The Short · 0:30 · CyberCrunch on YouTube
Your copier may still have your data
A leased copier can hold a hard drive full of scans that leaves with the machine. CyberCrunch picks up copiers and printers with the rest of your IT, pulls every drive, destroys the data in compliance with NIST, and certifies each device by serial number.
Transcript · the 30-second Short
Your copier may still have a hard drive full of scans. And when the lease ends, that data can leave with it. Meet CyberCrunch secure data destruction. We pick up copiers and printers with the rest of your IT. We find and pull every drive inside. Then destroy the data in compliance with NIST. And certify every device by serial number. If it stores data, we can destroy it. Lose the copier. Not the data.
Every networked copier and multifunction printer built in the last two decades contains a hard drive or flash storage, quietly caching scans, prints, and faxes. If sensitive documents have ever crossed the glass, that drive is a data-bearing asset.
The classic failure: the lease ends, the truck arrives, and the unit disappears into a refurbishment chain nobody can audit — with years of cached documents on board. There's no breach to report, and no way to prove there wasn't one.
The fix costs nothing if you do it early: negotiate a data clause into the lease — drive retention or certified sanitization at return — and make drive handling a step in your equipment-return process.
Read next: the copier is not the only counter device that keeps copies — the IDScan breach brief covers the ID scanners, kiosks, and tablets that cache license images, and what happened when a vendor kept 153 million of them.
We handle copier and printer drive destruction before lease returns, with serialized certificates for your records.
