exfiltration
Americannoun
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"When a breach at a platform the scale of Booking.com moves from data exfiltration to active phishing campaigns within days, it signals something more deliberate than opportunistic," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
As the aviator hid from Iranian forces, the agency spread false word inside the country that the U.S. military had already located the downed airman and were preparing to move him overland for exfiltration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
The podcast for the first time identified the second CIA officer who accompanied Mendez, naming him as agency linguist and exfiltration specialist Ed Johnson.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
Multiple officials said the attack was targeted at individual email accounts, rather than a large-scale exfiltration of data, which Chinese hackers are suspected of having done before.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
After a final night in his apartment, Gordievsky set out on the last and most perilous leg of his exfiltration plan.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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