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