Remote working leads to increase in email data breaches

12/05/2021 | Tech Times

Based on a poll of 500 IT professionals and 3,000 remote workers in the UK and US, a report from Egress found Microsoft 365 users have seen an increase in email data breaches. Sixty-seven percent of IT professionals said the increase is due to remote working, while 26% attributed incidents to an employee mistakenly sharing data through email. Of the Microsoft 365 users, 15% experienced more than 500 data breaches in 2020, and 93% reported subsequent negative impacts. In other news, ZDNet reveals hhishing, ransomware, web app attacks dominate data breaches, according to the Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report.

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