Cybertechnology impact offender and victims by making it hard to detect who is doing the offending. If a fraudster tricked someone to send them money it is near impossible to track down who the offender is. With the aid of the internet, the fraudster makes a spoof website and sends out millions of emails to randomized users. Eventually, there will be someone that bites and provides their credit card information. The victim has no clue who the person is nor where he is in the world. This makes it difficult to have people to be held accountable for malicious activity.

Another example of the impact between the offenders and the victims is that they had a close relationship in the past. There are numerous ways for them to have a bad breakup and one side of the relationship wants to get back at them by posting explicit photos of them on social media. This is easier to trace because the victim knows who had the photos and the offender can be banned from the social media website and forced to remove the photos. Another revengeful act can be just posting false rumors about their “ex” on the social media website. This can potentially get the victim fired or have them to lose any future opportunities with a company or school.

The last example of an impact between the offenders and the victims through cyber technology can be as technical as a DDoS attack. There could be a feud between two old business partner and one of them just want the other to fail. The offender will then commit a cyberterrorism crime by using as many resources as they can to completely overload the rival network servers with junk data. Or there could be a “Crusty burger/Plankton” situation where the rival business wants to know the “Crabby Patty” recipe and commits a man-in-the-middle attack and listens in.