Question

Adam's company recently suffered an attack where hackers exploited an SQL injection issue on their web server and stole sensitive information from a database. What term describes this activity?

a.Event
b.Outage
c.Incursion
d.Incident

Answer 1

d.Incident

Step-by-step explanation:

Based on the information provided within the question it seems that what is being described in this activity is an incident as: an unplanned interruption to an IT service or reduction in the quality of an IT service or a failure of a Configuration Item that has not yet impacted an IT service In the context of information technology this refers to an attack to a IT service or server which causes an unplanned interruption in that service or reduction or quality. Which the attack in this scenario did both as they attacked the server and stole sensitive information which most likely caused the service to be shut down for maintenance in order to fix the exploit.