Data Integrity Manipulation

The subject intercepts, alters, substitutes, suppresses, or redirects organizational data while it is moving between systems, applications, processes, interfaces, devices, or recipients. The destination consequently receives information that differs from the data originally transmitted.

The behavior may affect network traffic, application programming interface messages, middleware, message queues, email transport, print workflows, clipboard operations, transaction instructions, or other data-transfer mechanisms.

The subject modifies an application, executable, library, extension, runtime component, or processing pathway so that organizational data is altered as it is accessed, processed, rendered, or displayed.

The underlying stored data may remain unchanged while an operator, customer, investigator, or decision-maker is presented with inaccurate, incomplete, suppressed, or substituted information. The behavior may conceal transactions, alter displayed values, omit selected records, or cause an application to present information that differs from its authoritative source.

The subject inserts, deletes, alters, substitutes, or suppresses data retained within an organizational system so that the authoritative record becomes inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or unreliable.

Affected information may include database entries, business records, documents, stored communications, transactions, customer records, inventory values, measurements, or case information.