Even Higher Bank Officials Skip Cybersecurity

According to research by Palo Alto Networks, finance workers are likely to skip cybersecurity protection measures for faster transactions or approvals, which increases the likelihood of hackers penetrating their systems.

About one out of five finance workers admitted they ignored cybersecurity policies. According to many employees, they do not fully understand what is an online security risk.

Palo Alto Network's research spanned the entire Europe. France has the lowest number of finance workers disregarding online cybersecurity measures.

But this isn't the worst part of this news just yet.

Even higher bank officials have lax attitudes towards cybersecurity measures, which they personally ignore. About one in four executives in Europe admitted they exposed their companies to potential threats when they accessed delicate files.

Using unscrupulous methods to save time and circumvent security, they may have exposed their companies once to potential threats

Hacking has become a growing concern in the United Kingdom with Chancellor George Osborne announcing he would double the UK's spending on cybersecurity and will spend more than £1.9 billion extra to prevent further hacking incidents in the future.

The overall financial attacks of cybercrime in the world today has reached more 

than £200 billion in 2014 alone.