Workbook UNIT 10 - Crime doesn’t pay
Exercise
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Read the text and answer the questions.
Solution
- The legal activity that leads to cybercrime is the collection of data about customers and clients, followed by selling it to other customers, such as banks and employers.
- There are still concerns today about the data stolen from a credit card company in 2017 because the stolen data could potentially be used for identity theft for a very long time, and there were delays in informing the public about the breach.
- The web-based email service suffered a theft of an incredible 3 billion email accounts in the first hack.
- Hackers' apps look for personal data and information stored on hard disks.
- The Bad Rabbit virus asked computer users to pay money to the hacker to regain access to their encrypted hard disk.
- If you find ransomware on your computer, you should never believe the messages asking for money. Instead, take your device to an IT expert to have the virus removed.