March 2nd, 2009 by ahoogI couldn’t write a better article about this risks employers face. It’s fantastic to see this issue hit mainstream media. Hats off to the Ponemon Institute.
“Nearly 60 percent of employees who quit a job or are asked to leave are stealing company data, according to report by the Ponemon Institute, a Tucson based research group. The survey was based on interviews with 945 adults who were laid off, fired or changed jobs in the last year.
Seventy-nine percent of those who admitted to taking data said they did so despite knowing that their former employer did not permit them to take internal company information.
Sixty-five percent of those who took data from their former employer grabbed e-mail lists. The next most frequently stolen data included non-financial business information (45 percent), customer contact lists (39 percent), employee records (35 percent) and financial information (16 percent).”
via Data Theft Common By Departing Employees – washingtonpost.com.
