Security News > 2021 > November > Digital natives more likely to fall for phishing attacks at work than their Gen X and Boomer colleagues

SailPoint survey finds that younger workers also are more likely to use company email addresses for online shopping and subscriptions.

This SailPoint survey asked 500 U.S. workers about how they use email and deal with phishing attacks.

"Spending the majority of their time watching, tapping and swiping, digital natives are likely to have more identities or accounts - social media, emails, streaming accounts, etc. - and each of those identities likely has hundreds if not thousands of followers, making those types of accounts a bad actor's dream," Gantt-Evans said.

The survey found that a majority of Gen Z and Millennials respondents use corporate email addresses for their social media logins, compared to just 15% of Gen X and 7% of Boomers.

Using a work email for social media or streaming accounts can be a bad choice for the employee too, Gantt-Evans said.

"If you change jobs, and you have attached your work email to personal accounts, if those accounts become compromised, account recovery will be much harder, if not impossible, as those email addresses likely no longer exist," she said.

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