A manager is suspected of leaking trade secrets to a competitor. A security investigator is examining his laptop and notices a large volume of vacation pictures on the hard drive. Data on this laptop automatically uploads to a private cloud owned by the company once a week. The investigator noticed that the hashes of most of the pictures on the hard drive are different from the hashes of the pictures in the cloud location. Which of the following is the MOST likely explanation for this scenario?
A. The manager is leaking data using hashing methods.
B. The manager is leaking data using digital signatures.
C. The manager is leaking data using steganography methods.
D. The manager is not leaking data.
Answer: C. The manager is leaking data using steganography methods.