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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

In a survey released today [sailpoint.com], 27 percent of of U.S. office workers at large companies would sell their work password to an outsider [itworld.com], compared to a global average of 20 percent.

And despite all the recent media attention on data breaches, password hygiene is actually deteriorating, said Juliette Rizkallah, CMO at SailPoint Technologies [sailpoint.com], which sponsored the survey.

The study itself was conducted by Vanson Bourne, an independent research firm. The same survey was conducted last year as well, but then only one in seven employees were willing to sell their passwords.
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Crooks have to be willing to shell out some dough, however, as 56 percent of employees priced their credentials at over $1,000. Others, however, were willing to go as low as $100.

If guaranteed that the password sale would result in the CEO living on foodstamps, what would the percentage be then?

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