‘Whether intended or not, employees have started leaking confidential information through instant messaging systems as they try to avoid corporate email surveillance, according to a study released Tuesday.

About four out of five companies studied by Reconnex, an enterprise risk management company, had some form of confidential data pass through their instant messaging systems during the months of August and September. Just 10 to 13 percent of companies had sensitive data pass into secured email systems, Reconnex said.’

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