data breach

English

Noun

data breach (plural data breaches)

  1. (computer security) A successful cyberattack to obtain sensitive data.
    Coordinate term: data leak
    • 2014 January 25, “Preventing the Next Data Breach”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      A Verizon report on data breaches found that nearly four-fifths of intrusions in 2012 were of “low difficulty,” meaning hackers found trespass remarkably easy.
    • 2022 December 22, Zack Whittaker, “LastPass says hackers stole customers' password vaults”, in TechCrunch‎:
      Password manager giant LastPass has confirmed that cybercriminals stole its customers’ encrypted password vaults, which store its customers’ passwords and other secrets, in a data breach earlier this year.

Further reading
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.