Question

How could a hacker use the following information to their advantage? Also provide a possible method to obtain it.

- Personal Web pages of Employees

Answer 1

Hacker could do following tasks using personal web pages of employee to his/her advantage :

1) Extract personal details of employee and sell it to other business competitors for exchange with money.

2) Hacker could spam the personal and social links of the employee.

3) He could use the details of web site to create other similar phishy website for future attack on employee's system.

4) He could misuse employee's personal details to create fake public accounts.

One of the ways to gain access to employee's personal web page is via phishing attack , i.e making the employee to enter login details on a platform which appears to be safe , but in reality is fake.