27% of Office Workers Would Sell Work Passwords (and other stats)

Here's related coverage with a link to the actual survey:
http://www.csoonline.com/article/3046117/security-awareness/27-of-us-office-workers-would-sell-their-passwords.html

That seems pretty low to me.
It's guaranteed money in an age of globalism, poetically represented by the Indian writer of this article.

>>33949
>>>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.
my sides
Why make laws against this shit? If you're of able mind and do dumb shit then you deserve the consequences. Make laws making it illegal only to do such things against children and the simple minded and the elderly.

Hillary sollte darüber nachdenken, wer uns die refugees beschert hat. Das war die amerikanische Politik, die dachte, dass man jedem Urwald-Staat in die Demokratie hieven kann. In Europa brauchte es 500 Jahre vom Mittelalter bis zur Demokratie. Meine Meinung: Einen Zaun um diese Länder und nach 500 Jahren nachsehen, was daraus geworden ist!!

That's interesting. There was that study a while back that found nearly 80% of people would give away their passwords for a chocolate bar[1]. I guess I'd attribute the difference to 1) mildly increased security awareness 2) context being as an employee vs your own stuff and 3) the suspicious nature of someone offering you money vs something "harmless" like candy.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3639679.stm

>company doesn't care about employees
>employees don't care about the company
What a shock.

>>33949
Who's buying this info? What for?

This is it. Get into Microsoft and bring back tay. Or something. There are millions of corporate shekels somewhat easily available if you're willing to dirty your hands.

>>34026
It could be literally anybody, from your corporate competitor to The Chinese.

>>34019
This. In other news, water is wet, the sky is blue, saging for not actually contributing to thread on my part.

>>34026
you're the same kind of moron who thinks his personal information is secure just because the site you entered it into is reputable and promises not to sell it

newsflash, your SSN and CC# is already available for purchase on the internet probably in multiple databases. You know how much your info is worth? 5-15 bucks for your credit card, and 3-10 for your SSN, cheaper if bought in bulk (which it is).

The people who get your info get it in such large quantities that they make mad bank selling it for those low prices in bulk to resellers then the resellers sell them to fraudsters who get free stuff and free money.

>>34026
>give disgruntled employee of some big company a candy bar
>he gives you his passwords/access codes
>use it to get a hold of a client/employee database that has sensitive information like credit card numbers or medical records
>sell database
it's fairly straightforward

>>34177

You don't need the candy bar.
http://www.cnet.com/news/social-engineering-101-mitnick-and-other-hackers-show-how-its-done/

like any corporation deserves loyalty from it's peons, they'd fuck over hundreds just so some CEO shit bar could get a nicer office, I say its every employee's duty to fuck over their company for their own benefit

What kind of moron would be loyal to a company when they are never ever loyal to the employees? Idiocy.