How some employees turn to cybercrime?

When recession and high unemployment prolongs, survivals wondering when they would be the next one, which will increase probability of raise in data breaches and high-tech crimes.

In most cases inability to find gainful employment is a recurrent motivation behind theft and software piracy. In one recent case in California a woman in her 20s was arrested with a number of re-encoded credit cards in her possession to buy food.

Investigations show that corporations across all industries have been dealing with a constant growing number of data breaches since the financial meltdown.

Within the company anyone from top excecutives to low-level support employees can have access to different types of data that could be sold illegally. In the case of top administrators and super users' breaches, the organization will lose a great deal of information. Although in the case of average users these losses will be smaller but in a long run they can drag inevitable costs to the company.

These stolen information can range from employees' insurance record or their credit card numbers to company's main projects and confidential agreements or their valuable source codes which could be easily sold to cyber-criminals or be used to get a job with the company's competitors (later has more probability).

Those who remain employed but fear being the next to be fired can also tempt to steal corporate data because it's a common trend that rising stress results circumstances which motivate people to go to financial fraud.

Data resource: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/