If you follow security news, you’ve likely heard people talking about big companies suffering data breaches. And you might worry about how these breaches can affect you as a user. So what is a data breach? That’s what we’ll explain below, with advice on how to protect yourself from future breaches. Security Incident, Security Breach, Data Breach: What’s the Difference? The general term for a company or organization being hacked or attacked digitally is a security incident.
What Is A Data Breach And How Can You Protect Yourself?
Georgina Torbet, MakeUseOf
Wed, 11/20/2019 - 3:00am
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BING NEWS:
- Data breaches are getting worse
The latest Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) found half (49%) of the incidents across the EMEA region are initiated internally. Across the EMEA region, the top reasons for cybersecurity incidents include “miscellaneous errors, system intrusion, and social engineering” (87% of all breaches).
05/9/2024 - 10:26 pm | View Link - Dell discloses data breach of customers’ physical addresses
When TechCrunch reached out to Dell for comment, asking specific questions such as how many customers were impacted, how the breach occurred and why the company considers that a breach of physical addresses does not pose “a significant risk” to customers, the company responded with a boilerplate version of the email it sent to affected customers.
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- Data breach
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.
05/5/2024 - 8:16 am | View Link - What is a Data Breach? | IBM
A data breach is any security incident in which unauthorized parties gain access to sensitive or confidential information, including personal data (Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, healthcare data) or corporate data (customer data records, intellectual property, financial information).
05/4/2024 - 10:11 am | View Link - What is a data breach? | Cloudflare
A data breach is the release of confidential, private, or otherwise sensitive information into an unsecured environment. A data breach can occur accidentally, or as the result of a deliberate attack.
05/4/2024 - 9:14 am | View Link - Why Data Breaches Spiked in 2023
Stuart Madnick. February 19, 2024. Illustration by Aaron Marin. Save. Buy Copies. Summary. In spite of recent efforts to beef up cybersecurity, data breaches — in which hackers steal personal...
05/4/2024 - 8:02 am | View Link - What is a Data Breach?
What is a data breach? A data breach is a cyber attack in which sensitive, confidential or otherwise protected data has been accessed or disclosed in an unauthorized fashion. Data breaches can occur in any size organization, from small businesses to major corporations.
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