About 60 per cent of companies in the US, UK, Australia, France and Germany have had data leaks in the past year, some of which could have resulted in catastrophic losses of data such as the recent theft of 46m credit card numbers from discount clothing chain TK Maxx.
Only 6 per cent of companies can say with confidence that they have not experienced data leakage problems in the past two years, while three out of five say some data exposure has occurred in the past 12 months, according to a survey by research group Datamonitor and McAfee, a computer security company that makes money from sales of software and hardware to prevent data intrusion.
Data leakage can range from relatively minor cases, such as an employee leaving a laptop or USB drive unattended in a public place, to a full-scale hacking attack by people outside thecompany.
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