Learn English with the News: Cyber Crime

What’s a security breach, cyber heist, or identity theft? Learn the modern vocabulary of crime with this essential English News lesson. Find out how cyber criminals affected 70 million customers, what problems they caused, and how to protect yourself. Understanding this English vocabulary and these dangers can help keep you safer in today’s world. Take the quiz on this lesson here: TRANSCRIPT Hi. This is Rebecca. In today’s English In the News lesson, we’re going to talk about cyber theft. So what does “cyber theft“ mean? The word “cyber“ has to do with computers. And the word “theft“ has to do with stealing. All right? So let’s look at three headlines that were in the news recently regarding this subject of cyber theft. You’ll also learn lots of other vocabulary related to the same theme. So the first headline said, “Target data theft affects 70 million“. “Target“, you should know, is the name of a very large retail store in the United States and C