Question

8. Shireen has a Yahoo email account. In 2016, she found out that her password had been stolen, along with the en

thousands of Yahoo account holders. Shireen was a victim of a
A. terms-of-service agreement.
B. data breach.
C. targeted ad campaign.
D. cyberterrorism attack.

Answer 1

B. data breach.

Step-by-step explanation:

A data breach is an act of stealing, viewing, copying, and transmitting data that belongs to an individual or organization, and is private, sensitive, confidential, and protected , by an individual or an organization.

Data le_ak and unintended data disclosure are also data breaches. Data breachs can happen after cy_ber attacks and ha_cking of systems.

In 2016 Yahoo servers were hac_ked into and user names, email ids, passwords etc, were stolen.

Cyber terr_orism involves politically motivated destruction or obstruction of data and services.

Targeted ad campaign may involve flooding of a user account with advertising information through e-mails or messages etc.