Used Scanner Found with Thousands of Stored Check Images

According to The Hook, a Charlottesville, Virginia newspaper, an employee at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library bought a surplus Canon document scanner (CD-4050N) on eBay for $500. He wanted to use it for some archival work. However, this person quickly discovered that the scanner's drive had not been wiped clean, and that it contained images of thousands of personal and business checks, one as large $500,000. A Canon brochure on the scanner says that its local disk drive can hold up to 20,000 pages of material which "...are easily retrieved on a local or remote PC."