Data theft: Difference between revisions

'''Data theft''' is a growing phenomenon primarily caused by [[system administrators]] and office workers with access to technology such as [[database servers]], [[desktop computer]]s and a growing list of hand-held devices capable of storing digital information, such as [[USB flash drive]]s, [[iPod]]s and even [[digital camera]]s. Since employees often spend a considerable amount of time developing contacts and [[confidential]] and [[copyright]]ed information for the company they work for, they may feel they have some right to the information and are inclined to copy and/or delete part of it when they leave the company, or misuse it while they are still in employment. They can be sold and bought and then used by criminals and criminal organizations<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Xing|first1=Liudong|last2=Levitin|first2=Gregory|title=Balancing theft and corruption threats by data partition in cloud system with independent server protection|journal=Reliability Engineering & System Safety|date=November 2017|volume=167|pages=248–254|doi=10.1016/j.ress.2017.06.006|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref>. Alternatively, an employee may choose to deliberately abuse trusted access to information for the purpose of exposing [[misconduct]] by the employer; From the perspective of the society such an act of [[Whistleblower|whistleblowing]] can be seen as positive<ref>{{cite web|url=