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A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information". [1]Attackers have a variety of motives, from financial gain to political activism, political repression, and espionage.
A data breach involves unauthorized access to confidential information, ranging from customer contact details to closely guarded trade secrets, like the Colonel's secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices.
The 2013 data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 and affected all three billion user accounts. The 2014 breach affected over 500 million user accounts. Both breaches are considered the largest ever discovered and included names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and security questions—both encrypted and unencrypted.
In the first half of 2024, the number of data breach victims surpassed 1 billion, according to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. That's a 490% increase from the same time last year ...
Data breaches are happening at an alarming rate as more and more data is stored in the cloud. In 2023, 82% of breaches involved data stored in the cloud, according to an IBM report as reported by ...
It is unclear whether temporary loss of access to data is enough to trigger liability, or whether GDPR applies to all incidents related to security or only unauthorised access. [51] Further, the incident could be classed as a "personal data breach" which would be a data breach of the GDPR under Article 4 named "Definitions", paragraph 12.
The White House announced that the cyberattack was likely conducted by a Russian organization, [7] and news outlets reported that REvil was culpable. [16] As of June 2, REvil had not taken credit for the attack, [17] and the FBI was conducting an investigation into its origins.
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