Almost exclusively, this criminal activity is some form of identity theft. For example, respondents believe that if a hacker obtains their credit card number, for example, then that hacker can make fraudulent charges with it. But the respondents weren't always sure what kind of information the hacker was specifically looking for; they just described it as information the hacker could use to make money. Ivan talked about how hackers would look around the computer much like a thief might rummage around in an attic, looking for something useful. Erica used a different metaphor, saying that hackers would ake a digital photo of everything on my computer" and look in it for useful identity information.