Hacking and Identity Theft Risks

The assignment content discusses security issues related to hacking and identity theft, specifically in the context of Sainsbury's online marketing efforts. It highlights the risks of hacking, including compromising customer data and damaging the company's reputation, as well as the threat of identity theft through phishing scams. The content emphasizes the importance of maintaining a secure and trustworthy website to retain customers and stay competitive in the market.

Habibullah Tohin Aman (1110556) AV Corp Promotional Materials TASK 5
Security issues
Hacking
Hacking is a method used by hacker to have access to a computer system with the intention
to obtain data without the permission of owner and cause damage on it or steal data for
malicious purpose.
Hacking can be done by different ways, the most
common one is the Trojan horse programs that allow
the hackers to trick the people by using social
engineering such as emails with message of prizes.
If Sainsbury’s may be attacked, the best way for the
hacker to do that will be attack the website of the shop
and compromise it by taking information and about the online customer and possibly steal
their bank profile by taking the username and password.
That can cause to Sainsbury’s to lose customers and lose money in it for the reason that the
shop in the last years have invested on numerous operation about the online marketing.
If the website will be compromised as I said above Sainsbury’s may lose customer and get
behind to other competitors such as “Tesco and Asda” which can take a huge advantage.
Another thing that may cause the loss of customers is that for the reason that the shop’s
website was compromised the customer could not trust it anymore so that will cause the
decrease of the website reliability.
Identify Theft
Identify theft is a method to steal personal details from other people and it is done by
people who want by doing this some sort of beneficial such as impersonate the victim or by
selling the data to others.
Identify theft has numerous ways about how it can be done
such as phishing that is way where the thief made a fake
website in order to trick the customers by trying to let them
input their data which are saved immediately to the thief
computer. After doing that, the thief could send emails to the
victims to say that they have to urgently update their account
details to the fake website for the purpose to collect even more details such as back account
and other stuff.
If this happens to Sainsbury’s, they may can loss customer for the reason that their website
will be not anymore trustful for the people and it can compromise also the customer
account and that can ruin the reputation of not having a secure and safe website.