In the past, I have looked at how the big corporations in the US and Britain have brought in snoops to check emails in the workplace.

Now it seems they've been beaten to the punch.

One in three IT workers admits snooping through company systems to check up on people's private details, like their private files, personal emails and how much they're making, according to a Cyber-Ark Software survey.

The study also found that more than one-third of them can still access the system, even after they have left the workplace. How would they do it? Because as the survey reveals, 20 per cent of organisations never change their administrative passwords. And one in four respondents said they knew of another IT staff member who still had access to sensitive networks even though they'd left the company long ago. Duh!

No surprises then that 15 per cent of organisations said they had experienced some form of sabotage from inside.

As for the IT workers, they're not particularly fussed. As one reportedly told the researchers: "Why does it surprise you that so many of us snoop around your files, wouldn't you if you had secret access to anything you can get your hands on!"