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IT staff confess to perusing confidential data
*Source: PC Pro (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/114255/i...al-data.html)*
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According to a new survey, a third of IT staff take advantage of their position to look through private files, wage data, personal emails, and HR details.

Access to special administrative passwords means that IT department workers can rifle through confidential information with privileged and anonymous access to virtually any system within an organisation, the survey said.

One respondent to the survey of 200 IT professionals said that if people had the kind of access to files they had they would do the same. 'Why does it surprise you that so many of us snoop around your files, wouldn't YOU if you had secret access to anything you can get your hands on,' they said.

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