A Hacker Extracts Clients' Social Security Numbers from a Company's

question 22

Multiple Choice

A hacker extracts clients' social security numbers from a company's information system, then offers to sell the numbers back to the company to prevent their disclosure. The hacker's actions are an example of:

• A) Disclosure of confidential information.
• B) Extortion.
• C) Information manipulation.
• D) Service interruption.

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Definitions:

Margin of Error

An expression of the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results, indicating a range within which the true population parameter is likely to lie.

Confidence Interval

A collection of values, derived from the analysis of sample data, that is expected to cover the value of an unknown population quality.

Standard Error

A measure of the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population by using the standard deviation of the sample.

Confidence Interval

A set of numbers, taken from sample-based statistics, that is probable to contain the estimated value of an unspecified population parameter.