20% of
employees are willing to sell their work email passwords
By Priya Anand
Published: Mar 23, 2016 8:11 a.m. ET
How much are your passwords worth to
you?
One in five employees say they’d be willing to sell their
work-related passwords, according to a survey of 1,000 office workers at
private organizations released Monday by SailPoint, an Austin-based security
company.
Of the people who said they’d be
willing to sell their passwords, 44% said they wouldfork
over the credentials for less than $1,000. That’s just 88 of the 1,000
employees surveyed, or 8.8%, but the figure is still one that shows humans are
the weakest link when it comes to security, says SailPoint President Kevin
Cunningham.
The survey also found 65% of workers say they use a single
password across their accounts.
“People know it’s not good. Like smoking, they know it’s not
good for you, but they do it. They know it’s not good to speed, but they do
it,” Cunningham says, comparing it to other bad habits. “I think we’re seeing a
big lag between awareness and implementation of good practices.”
About 45% of the workers surveyed came from companies with
10,000 or more workers; 25% were from companies with 5,000 to 9,999 employees
and 30% belonged to organizations with 1,000 to 4,999 staffers.
Some people would take an even
smaller award. ProPublica reported in 2014 that 380 New Yorkers gave up their
fingerprints and portions of their Social Security numbers in exchange for a cookie.
Many employees already unwittingly
give up their company’s credentials. Breaches often begin with a phishing
attack, through which an attacker obtains an employee’s credentials to gain
access to a network. The Department of Justice charged a Pennsylvania man last
week with hacking more than 100 Apple AAPL, +0.11% and
Google GOOG, -0.15% accounts,
mostly of celebrities. His attack strategy? He sent them emails that
appeared to be from those companies and convinced them to click on fake login
pages he emailed them to steal their usernames and passwords.
And many Internet users refused to change
their passwords after the Heartbleed Internet bug in 2015, even if they had
heard the news that it was considered one of the biggest recent security flaws.
That’s why there’s been a movement to kill the password and move
toward other ways of proving identities online — for example, by using
biometrics or passcodes sent to personal devices, which must then be entered
into a login page. Professors from Stanford University and George Washington
University suggested last year that thegovernment should help kill passwords by
banning companies to rely on them exclusively, so as to hasten a technological
evolution.
While
people seem to be willing to give up their online credentials in exchange for
cash or cookies, criminals are buying them up in black markets. Netflix account
passwords sell for as little as $5, and PayPal access goes for about $9, according to the Tokyo-based
cybersecurity company Trend Micro.
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