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^[1], →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^[2]:

     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

• data breach on Wikipedia.Wikipedia