ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question

Because money was illegally taken from customer accounts, the primary offense is theft by deception, a form of financial fraud. Fraud that results in monetary loss to victims is prosecuted under criminal statutes, so the incident must be treated as a financial fraud (criminal) investigation. Civil tort investigations focus on disputes between private parties seeking damages, administrative investigations address internal or regulatory policy violations, and industrial espionage investigations involve theft of trade secrets rather than direct monetary theft from customers.