A fifth of staff would sell work passwords - but for how much?

Employers need to beef up their cybersecurity as one in five of their employees would sell their work-related passwords to outsiders.

That is according to a new report from SailPoint. The security and governance experts have released their annual Market Pulse Survey. It revealed that not only would one in five employees sell their passwords to people outside their organisations, 44% of those would do so for less than $1,000 (£700). Some would sell their corporate credentials for less than $100 (£70). 26% of employees admitted to uploading sensitive information to cloud apps with the specific intent to share that data outside the company.

SailPoint surveyed 1,000 office workers in the UK, the US, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Australia.

85% said that they would react negatively if their personal information was breached by another company. 84% said that they were concerned that sensitive information about them was being shared.