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Data breach

A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information". Attackers have a variety of motives, from financial gain to political activism, political repression, and espionage. There are several technical root causes of data breaches, including accidental or intentional disclosure of information…

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Data breach

Nodes133
Edges132
Triples152
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.015038
Components1

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Data breach

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has prevention · 24
Data breach → Although, Breaches, CISO, Daswani, Data Confidentiality, Defense, Elbayadi, Giving, Identifying, In, Many, Nevertheless, NIST, Other, Protecting Assets Against Data, Rigorous, Security, Several, Standards, Technology
has cause · 19
Data breach → Another, Both, Data, Despite, Hashing, Human, If, Keyloggers, One, Patches, Social, Some, Technical, The, Training, Two-factor, Via, Vulnerabilities, With
related to Notification · 17
Data breach → Breaches, Change Healthcare, Civil Rights, HHS Breach Portal, HIPAA Breach Notification Rule, HITECH Act, In, Laws, Notification, OCR, Office, PHI, Shame, The, The February, United States, Wall
related to For organizations · 14
Data breach → Author Kevvie Fowler, Coinbase, Consumer, Estimating, He, Impacts, In, It, Romanosky, Sasha Romanosky, Some, The, There, United States
related to Threat actors · 13
Data breach → According, Anonymous, Another, Both, El Chapo, Israeli, Jamal Khashoggi, More, NSO Group, Often, Opportunistic, State-sponsored, The Pegasus
related to Definition · 12
Data breach → According, An, Like, National Institute, NCSC, NIST, Others, Security Centre, Some, Standards, Technology, The UK National Cyber
related to For consumers · 12
Data breach → After, Bitcoin, Criminals, I2P, One, Originating, Silk Road, Social Security, Telegram, The, This, When
related to Litigation · 11
Data breach → Daniel, Even, It, Legal, Litigation, Many, Plaintiffs, Solove, The, They, Woodrow Hartzog
related to Response · 8
Data breach → After, Containing, If, Many, Of, Once, Responding, To
related to Prevalence · 5
Data breach → Before, Even, In, Nevertheless, Sasha Romanosky

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data breach breaches security information often notification many laws law also companies cost although may risk company malware software personal

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phishing where insiders are tricked into disclosing informationinstance ofand social engineering attacks0.80text
customers or employeesinstance of10 percent by end users0.80text
and 10 percent by states or state-affiliated actorsinstance of10 percent by end users0.80text
drug kingpin El Chapo as well as political dissidentsinstance ofhas drawn attention both for use against criminals0.80text
facilitating the murder of Jamal Khashoggiinstance ofhas drawn attention both for use against criminals0.80text
the Office for Civil Rightsinstance ofbreaches may be investigated by government agencies0.80text
the United States Department of Healthinstance ofbreaches may be investigated by government agencies0.80text
Human Servicesinstance ofbreaches may be investigated by government agencies0.80text
and the Federal Trade Commissioninstance ofbreaches may be investigated by government agencies0.80text
Bitcoin in the 2010sinstance offollowed by untraceable cryptocurrencies0.80text
made it possible for criminals to sell data obtained in breaches with minimal risk of getting caughtinstance offollowed by untraceable cryptocurrencies0.80text
facilitating an increase in hackinginstance offollowed by untraceable cryptocurrencies0.80text

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