Norwegian news agency NRK reported on a data breach by Statoil, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, due to using free online translation tools from translate.com , and the data become open Google search results.



For translation agencies, this is something forseen already.  Professional translation companies use translation software to memorize translation queries for future use, so the concept exists long ago.

There is no doubt people will agree that for high-level translation result, you need to hire translation agency or professional translators.  Documents which are categorised as "high-level" are legal documents, contracts, business presentation / offers,  media news release, marketing materials and of course the sales copy