An Absolute Software Corp. (TSX: ABT) survey has found that one in five companies reported experiencing a data security breaches and believed that 61% of the breaches were perpetrated by internal employees.
One in five companies also believed that some previous breaches of sensitive data went unnoticed within the company.
Approximately 62% of the companies surveyed reported that there are probably past episodes of stolen computers that they remain unaware of.
The data exposed ranged from confidential information about business (39%), employee information (22%) and misplaced information about customers (22%).
Absolute surveyed 402 of its corporate customers and 1,842 of its consumer customers.
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