Ian Barker reports:
We’ve all heard of the Great Resignation, a pandemic-driven shift in people’s work preferences. But new research from Cyberhaven suggests that this has gone hand-in-hand with a huge stealing of data.
Based on anonymized details from over 1.4 million workers and spanning 360,000 data exfiltration incidents and a broad sample of companies, including 11 percent of the Fortune 100, it reveals data ranging from customer information to software source code being exfiltrated in large volumes.
The findings show that nearly one in ten employees (9.4 percent) will exfiltrate data over a six-month period, and they’re much more likely to take sensitive information in the two weeks before they resign (an 83.1 percent increase in incidents compared to the baseline).
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