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Definition
Information Theft is the fraudulent acquisition of information assets (data) by parties external or internal to the organization. Such information may be stored in physical form (e.g. paper records) or digitally, in which case it is a type of IT Risk
Examples
There is a wide variety of attack vectors, depending on the storage/transmission mechanisms, for example
- Document Theft / Copying
- Database Theft
- Credit Card Number, ATM Spoofing, PIN Capturing