Article: COMPUTER CRIME EVERYWHERE, SURVEY FINDS.(BUSINESS)

Byline: BRIAN S. AKRE Associated Press

DETROIT Nearly every major corporation that responded to a nationwide survey said it had been a victim of cybercrime, from employee snooping through confidential files to criminal theft of trade secrets.

``It's extraordinarily widespread,'' said David Carter, a criminal justice professor at Michigan State University in East Lansing who conducted the survey.

The mail survey of 500 corporate security directors of major corporations was conducted from June through August. Of the 150 that responded, 148 or 98.6 percent said their companies had been victims of computer-related crimes. Of those, 43.3 ...

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