One in five employees would sell passwords to an outsider

One in five employees would sell his private passwords to a third-party organization and 44% would do so for less than $1,000, while some would sell their corporate credentials for less than $100, a recent survey shows.

Some 27% of US respondents would sell work-related passwords, followed by Germany (20%), the UK and France (16%) and the Netherlands and Australia (12%).

Most respondents who would sell their passwords for less than $1,000 originate from the UK, France (over 50%), while employees from Germany, Australia, the US, and the Netherlands scoring lower (less than 50%).

According to last year’s survey, one in seven respondents was willing to sell passwords to a third-party for $150. Some 20% shared passwords with their co-workers, and 56% shared passwords among applications.

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Internal threats came second on a list of top threat vectors found by security professionals, according to HOTforSecurity. Moreover, some 42% of IT managers said they were unable to identify the source of security breaches, while 32% of those who admitted having experienced a breach can’t say how often they were breached, making identification of suspect employees difficult.

SailPoint surveyed 1,000 office workers at private organizations with at least 1,000 employees across Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.