Over 80 percent of employees admit accessing a previous employer's data

New research from multi-factor authentication specialist Beyond Identity finds that 83 percent of employees admit to maintaining continued access to accounts from a previous employer. More worrying is that over half of these employees (56 percent) say they have used this continued digital access with the specific intent of harming their former employer. This figure jumps to 70 percent among those who had been dismissed. The study of over 1,100 respondents across the US, UK and Ireland finds the most common abuses are logging into corporate social media (36 percent), looking through company emails (32 percent), and taking company files… [Continue Reading]