Answer to Question #270280 in Programming & Computer Science for Marwa

Question

The Board of Directors at an international financial services organization, headquartered in London with offices in financial centers throughout the world, including Paris, New York and Hong Kong, were considering a confidential merger offer. On a Friday afternoon, before a three-day weekend, the CIO received a ransom email from an unknown source stating they knew about the merger plans and had personal details of 150,000 customers. 

A sample of personal details for 500 customers was included in the ransom email as "proof". Unless a significant ransom was paid in Bitcoin, they would leak the merger plans and sell the customer information.

1-     Give three possible scenarios on how the attacker was able to retrieve the information.

2-     Under which category of the Threat spectrum do you think this case should be categorized?

3-     What should be, in your opinion, the course of actions that will need to be taken by the CIO.

Answer 1

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