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Attackers reach confidential data through overprivileged or unprotected paths.
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A data breach is a security incident in which confidential or protected information is accessed, copied, transmitted, stolen, or used without authorization.
The term developed in information security and privacy practice as organizations began treating loss of confidentiality in digital records as a distinct risk. NIST places it within the evolution of incident response and protection of sensitive information.
Picture a protected dataset whose contents an unauthorized person can read or pass on. The breach describes the unauthorized access or disclosure; the triggering weakness may be permissions, software, or human behavior.
The concept captures a concrete system property that affects engineering decisions.
This concept helps teams recognize unauthorized disclosure as a distinct security case, limit its impact, and plan notification and countermeasures.
This concept helps teams recognize unauthorized disclosure as a distinct security case, limit its impact, and plan notification and countermeasures.
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