Cybersecurity

Two-Thirds of Companies See Insider Data Theft, Accenture Says

  • Cost of hacking seen as rising to $90 trillion a year by 2030
  • More data attacks by employees than outsiders in past year
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As businesses spend billions of dollars a year trying to protect their data from hacking that’s costing trillions, they face another threat closer to home: data theft by their own employees.

That’s one of the findings in a survey to be published by management consultant Accenture Plc and HfS Research on Monday.