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The key answer of exercise 11

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Workbook UNIT 10 - Crime doesn’t pay for the textbook Engage B2 with Exam Skills with authors Barbara Bettinelli e Jane Bowie from Pearson Longman

Question

Read the text and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. The legal activity that leads to cybercrime is the collection of data about customers and clients, followed by selling it to other customers, such as banks and employers.
  2. There are still concerns today about the data stolen from a credit card company in 2017 because the stolen data could potentially be used for identity theft for a very long time, and there were delays in informing the public about the breach.
  3. The web-based email service suffered a theft of an incredible 3 billion email accounts in the first hack.
  4. Hackers' apps look for personal data and information stored on hard disks.
  5. The Bad Rabbit virus asked computer users to pay money to the hacker to regain access to their encrypted hard disk.
  6. If you find ransomware on your computer, you should never believe the messages asking for money. Instead, take your device to an IT expert to have the virus removed.