Select the correct answer. ryan received an email from a person claiming that he is an employee of the bank in which ryan has a bank account. he asks ryan for his account number and online banking password to verify certain details of ryan’s account. ryan gives him the required details. a day later, when ryan goes online to perform certain transactions, he sees that his account balance is zero. which method did the hacker use to hack ryan’s account? a. social engineering b. dos c. spoofing d. sniffing

Social engineering is the method, the hacker use to hack Ryan’s account.

Explanation:

The act of obtaining information by pretending them to be right person and start stealing information to gain money.

Sniffing: It is a technique of attacking a data packets which are passed through the network. It is one way of stealing information.

DoS: This option is no way related to network or hacking.

Spoofing: This is a very close answer, but spoofing normally hacks a computer by placing a malicious file.

So According to the given situation of obtaining password and username from the user by wearing a false ways relate to the term Social engineering.

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