data theft
nounid
2238·updated Aug 30, 2026verified· unreviewed
The deliberate or intentional act of stealing of information.
MWE
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Classifications
Entity Type
Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
Sensitivity
Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
—50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- plural
- data thefts
- possessive
- data theft's
- pluralpossessive
- data thefts'
Framework definitions
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
- §1
- The deliberate or intentional act of stealing of information.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- The deliberate or intentional act of stealing of information.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
Outgoing relationships
- related
- →data aggregationnoun
- →Data leakagenoun
- →data lossnoun
Incoming relationships
- related
- ←data loss preventionnoun
- ←data lossnoun
- ←data breachnoun