Use the web or other resources to research at least two criminal or civil cases in which recovered files played a significant role in how the case was resolved.
Criminal activities, more so those related to internet attacks, have been on the rise, and at least every year, reports have approximated around 351,937 complaints have presented their cases. With the rise of digital attacks, let’s have a look at Mat Honan’s case, as witnessed in 2012 when the multipronged attack by hackers befell his digital life. Worth noting is his gadgets, including a phone, tablet, and laptop, had been erased of his amazon, google, tweeter, as well as apple accounts all nowhere as the hacker had wiped out everything (Souppouris, 2012). Much of his details, such as personal and family photos, had been seized, and he had no hope of getting the back.
However, much fear Mat Honan had engineers and highly skilled personnel from DriveSavers, were able to recover an estimate of 78% of Honan’s data that had been thought of gone forever since he had no backup anywhere (Khosrow-Pour, 2018). His case was only resolved after the recovery of the vital details he wanted from the cloud servers.
Another piece of the criminal case reported was that of Mikyala Munn in 2016. Mikyala Munn student at Manchester University, claimed that she gave birth to a newborn while she was having her bath. The infant accidentally drowned since she was aware of the incident. According to her, she never felt even the labor pains, and the process took place instantly when she realized that the new baby had drowned to death without her consent. An investigation conducted indicated that Mikyala Munn had been googling and searched over the internet on home abortion, and perhaps how umbilical cord may be cut. After she could not account for the googling activity, the piece of evidence from google was used against her, and she was sentenced for 9 years upon rendered guilty (Indystar, 2018).
References
Indystar. (, 2018). Mikayla Munn was sentenced in death of her newborn baby in dorm. Retrieved from https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2018/07/25/mikayla-munn-sentenced-death-her-new-born-baby-dorm-manchester-university/832684002/
Khosrow-Pour, D. (2018). Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in System Security, Information Privacy, and Forensics. Hershey: IGI Global.
Souppouris, A. (2012, August 18). How Wired’s Mat Honan recovered his data after ‘epic hacking’ – The Verge. Retrieved from https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/18/3251514/how-to-recover-deleted-files-mat-honan-wired