Question

What types of data are stolen by cyber-criminals in most of the cases?

(a) Data that will  pay once sold

(b) Data that has no value

(c) Data like username and passwords only

(d) Data that is old

I have been asked this question by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

The above asked question is from How Security Breach Takes Place topic in chapter Security Ethics, Security Breach Scenarios & Corporate Security of Cyber Security

Answer 1

Right option is (a) Data that will  pay once sold

The best explanation: Usually, cyber-criminals steal those data that are confidential and adds value once they are sold to the dark-market or in different deep web sites. Even these days, different companies buy customer data at large for analyzing data and gain profit out of it.