Information Theft

Definition

Information Theft is the fraudulent acquisition of information assets (data) by parties external or internal to the organization. Such information may be stored in physical form (e.g. paper records) or digitally, in which case it is a type of IT Risk

Examples

There is a wide variety of attack vectors, depending on the storage/transmission mechanisms, for example

• Document Theft / Copying
• Database Theft
• Credit Card Number, ATM Spoofing, PIN Capturing

See Also

• Wikipedia on Data Theft

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