1. World problems
  2. Theft of data

Theft of data

Incidence

One of the biggest attempted cyber-scams occurred in December 1999 when a hacker stole 300,000 credit card numbers from the U.S.-based Internet music company, CD Universe. He posted the credit card numbers on the Web after the company refused to pay a ransom of $100,000.

Broader

Theft
Excellent
Cybercrime
Excellent

Aggravated by

Work-place theft
Unpresentable

Related

Value

Theft
Yet to rate

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Information » Data, codes
  • Societal problems » Crime
  • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    D2957
    DOCID
    11429570
    D7NID
    149510
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020