Your credit card has been cloned. A card contains various personal information. What category of data breach is this incident?

The correct answer is B. Digital. Data breach categories: Material: Loss of equipment or material with data, lost file folders, lost smartphones, etc. Verbal: Indiscretion, shoulder surfing, intentional leakage of sensitive information, etc. Digital (not material): Backdoors, incorrect coding, maladministration…

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AMaterial
BDigital
CVerbal

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Data breach categories: Material: Loss of equipment or material with data, lost file folders, lost smartphones, etc. Verbal: Indiscretion, shoulder surfing, intentional leakage of sensitive information, etc. Digital (not material): Backdoors, incorrect coding, maladministration (e.g., patch management), insufficient security measures, card cloning etc.

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