Question $22$

$1\mathrm{.}65$ pts

A database administrator for North American company X$,$ named John, is communicating with another database administrator for the same company in Europe, named Abigail, on a closed network. Their communications include several highly sensitive documents about database administration. One week later, John encounters a threat that ran deeper into the company than ever seen before. Although he was able to stop the intrusion, John realizes that the attacker would have had to know the sensitive information he shared with Abigail. After an investigation, it was determined that neither John nor Abigail forwarded the documents to anyone else. Once the company realized that the message had been intercepted, they executed their security incident response plan to try and fix the problem. What term best describes what happened to the communication between Abigail and John?

Pretexting

Spoofing

Usurpation

Sniffing