During a routine review of firewall logs, an analyst identified that an IP address from the organizations server subnet had been connecting during nighttime hours to a foreign IP address, and had been sending between 150 and 500 megabytes of data each time. This had been going on for approximately one week, and the affected server was taken offline for forensic review. Which of the following is MOST likely to drive up the incidents impact assessment?

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During a routine review of firewall logs, an analyst identified that an IP address from the organizations server subnet had been connecting during nighttime hours to a foreign IP<br/> address, and had been sending between 150 and 500 megabytes of data each time. This had been going on for approximately one week, and the affected server was taken offline for<br/> forensic review. Which of the following is MOST likely to drive up the incidents impact assessment?