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Employee emails, and other common causes of data breaches

Employees’ emailing and file sharing practices are the leading cause of accidental data breaches, according to a new survey.

By Victoria Hudgins | March 04, 2019 at 10:30 AM
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email-in-trash The “explosive growth” in unstructured data, such as emails, documents and files, and the growing methods employees can use to communicate have significantly increased the chance of exposing sensitive data.

Email is the most common technology used in accidental data breaches, according to a survey of 1,000-plus U.S. companies sponsored by data security platform Egress and conducted by Opinion Matters research group.

Eighty-three percent of organizations surveyed said they experienced an accidental data breach. When an employee has unintentionally exposed sensitive data, 51 percent of respondents said it was through an external email provider, such as Gmail and Yahoo. Meanwhile, 46 percent said corporate email was used in an accidental data breach.

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