"alter data" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to modify or change information or facts. Example: The company's IT department was able to alter the data in the system, correcting the errors that were causing the website to crash.
They can steal information, erase or alter data, deface Web sites, or pose as company representatives.
Offensive operations intended to alter data, turn off networks or destroy machines — which is what made the Iran operation so complex and unusual — are a far newer phenomenon.
They may make subtle changes in a system, open obscure "doors" that allow other hackers secret access in the future, or slightly alter data in ways that are difficult to detect.
Utgoff isn't afraid that the Trump Administration will meddle with statistical methodologies or the numbers they produce; that would require co-opting thousands of career government surveyors, statisticians, and economists in an effort to alter data collected from hundreds of thousands of businesses and citizens.
And they are suggesting that perhaps Houston is a model of how the focus on school accountability can sometimes go wrong, driving administrators to alter data or push students likely to mar a school's profile -- through poor attendance or low test scores -- out the back door.
At a session near Valentine's Day, foil-covered Nestlé Crunch hearts were given as prizes for those who correctly identified codes that must be entered on computer screens when aid officers alter data (Congress grants them "professional judgment" to make such changes).
The defendant, Sven Jaschan, 19, was found guilty of computer sabotage and illegally altering data, the court in the northwestern town of Verden said.
Serco, admonished by MPs after it was revealed to have altered data about out-of-hours doctor services in Cornwall, was paid £10m by NHS England for providing healthcare.
The hacker, Kevin Mitnick, 39, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., served five years in federal prison for stealing software and altering data at Motorola, Novell, Nokia, Sun Microsystems and the University of Southern California.
Unlike recent episodes in which Web sites were defaced or credit card records were taken from an online music retailer, this week's attacks have not involved stolen or altered data.
As a member of the Bureau of Economic Analysis's advisory panel and a professional user of government statistics for 35 years, I am not aware of any instance in which government statisticians have altered data under political pressure.
