Using Web mail (hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc) for Business mails

Dear List,

It is a common practice among users to user their personal email accounts like hotmail, gmail, etc to send & receive business (and most probably confidential) information

This is particularly the case when users are out of office

These webmails are not under the company's control, and hence there is a risk of information loss. However upto now we have not heard of any such cases

Wanted to get the opinion of the list on the security risks of the use of Webmails for business mails

Thanks & regards

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