The Weirdest Things IT Workers Have Found On Company Laptops

Hector Roqueta Rivero via Getty Images Employers often caution employees not to click on weird links that could invite malware into their business networks — but they also need to remind them to be careful about mixing their personal lives with their company laptops. “We’ve had many laptops come in with physical Post-it notes tagged on, detailing bank accounts, passwords, logins and even 12-word recovery phrases to crypto wallets,” Donovan said. “Sometimes working in IT reminds you that there’s a much darker side of life that, thankfully, the vast majority of people can hope to never experience,” Adams said. It’s also important to remember to continually protect your information — personal or business — on your company laptop or any device while you are using it, said Eric Sackowitz, co-founder and chief technical officer of SecureCo, a business-to-business cybersecurity and internet privacy company. He said among those items are “banking info, personal pictures, videos, résumés, email to relatives, dating/gaming apps, clear text docs with account passwords and even family Social Security numbers and birthdates, including their children.” And that’s what should rattle anyone.