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Out of the following, which all comes under cyber crime ?
1) Stealing away a brand new hard disk from a showroom
2) Getting in someone's social networking account without his consent and posting on his behalf
3) Secretly copying data from server of an organization and selling it to the other organization.
4) Looking at online activities of a friends blog.
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Solution
Getting in someone's social networking account without his consent and posting on his behalf
Secretly copying data from server of an organization and selling it to the other organization.
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