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InvestigateTV+ Weekend: Hidden hacker risks

Marcus Chen
Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Friday, October 9, 2026 at 5:21 PM · 1 min read
InvestigateTV+ Weekend: Hidden hacker risks — ABC 7 Suncoast SWFL, Venice Technology news
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(InvestigateTV) — Your most sensitive information may not be sitting in a computer — it could be inside the printer down the hall. Chris Nakamoto finds why some offices may be leaving that data exposed. Plus, a family loses their home as firefighters reported trouble getting water pressure. Then, records raise questions about what city leaders knew. Network NightmaresMultifunction printers and copiers inside America’s police stations, hospitals, and schools aren’t just printing documents - they’re storing them. Every warrant, every patient record, every sealed court filing can be saved on an internal hard drive. When the lease ends and the vendor picks up the machine, that data sometimes goes with it. And in most cases, no one has ever asked what happens to it next. A breach at a company handling government Medicaid data, what the Texas Attorney General called likely the largest data breach in U.S. history, exposed the personal information of more than 25 million Americans, a reminder

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