In a study by Cyber-Ark it was found that one in three professional IT staff  abuse their privileges and snoop on confidential data regarding employee & colleagues' salary details and personal emails.

Because of the infrequency of password changes companies are also more vulnerable to keylogging trojan or worm activity that infects a company network.

In an excerpt from a Reuters article explains...

" One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues' salary details, personal emails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.

U.S. information security company Cyber-Ark surveyed 300 senior IT professionals, and found that one-third admitted to secretly snooping, while 47 percent said they had accessed information that was not relevant to their role.

"All you need is access to the right passwords or privileged accounts and you're privy to everything that's going on within your company," Mark Fullbrook, Cyber-Ark's UK director, said in a statement released along with the survey results on Thursday."

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