Data Breaches are Something to Keep on Our Radars
Published on November 10, 2018
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We here so much about data breaches in the online communities across the internet, and the world in general much more so since the introduction of the GDPR.
A data breach is the intentional or unintentional release of secure or private and confidential information to a third party, usually that someone or entity is going to use that data for their advantage, at the expense usually of the data owner.
A data breach occurs when a bad boy or bad girl get up to their bad boy and bad girl stuff by infiltrating a data source and extracting sensitive information and then proceed to share that information usually to cause mayhem or for financial gain.
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They can do this by physically accessing a computer or network and then proceed to steal local files or by bypassing network security remotely, commonly referred to as hacking. Hacking is the preferred method to target companies and it is the thing that we see most in the news media. Some data breaches have been massive.
It can be something to keep in mind even if we are only a small operator we all of us have an expanding online footprint, I came across this excellent resource to check if some of our data has been exposed.
It is one of those public service sites free to use and I think they run off of donations. We can access HIBP to see if our personal data has been exposed.
Kind of cool, to know it offers a sense of comfort.
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