An alarming number of people would consider stealing sensitive data from their employer if it suited their own ends, and the figure is rising, new research has found. One in three employees canvassed by information security company Cyber-Ark said they had used their employee permissions to access privileged corporate information such as HR records and customer databases without authorisation. Worryingly from a security point of view, fully three quarters of those questioned in the US and UK claimed they could bypass the controls their companies had put in place to protect such information.

It seems that ethicalism is becoming a decreasing priority in peoples lives ...