More than one fourth – 27% – of financial services organizations in a CDW Corp. straw poll experienced a data loss in the past two years, the information technology products company said.

And 60% of the 150 respondents said data loss – including accidental or negligent loss, internal threats, bot data harvesting and malicious attacks from targeted intrusion – pose the greatest business threat over the next year, the Vernon Hills, Ill., company said.

Only 12% of the group picked social engineering, such as phishing or spear phishing via social networks, as the primary threat.

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