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data theft

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The deliberate or intentional act of stealing of information.

MWENational Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
data thefts
possessive
data theft's
pluralpossessive
data thefts'