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Security Breaches
Security Breaches
Security Breaches
MIS 605
Introduction
Any method or occurrence that leads in unauthorised access to data, applications, networks
unapproved logical boundary, this is referred to as a security breach. Security breach is also
referred to as security infringement in some cases. A security breach is one of the early
phases of a hacker's security attack, and it is one of the most dangerous stages of the attack.
software or hardware. When any form of intrusion, abnormality, or violation happens, the
Date: June 2021
On June 20, 2021, a Dark Web site placed a listing for data related with 700 million LinkedIn
members, which was purchased. This exposure had an influence on 92 percent of the
In two waves, the data was leaked, with the first exposing 500 million users and the second
exposing 700 million people, according to the hacker "God User," who bragged that they
credibility of the intrusion. The following information was included in the data:
Email addresses
Full names
Phone numbers
Geolocation records
Genders
The data was scraped by a hacker who took use of LinkedIn's API.
LinkedIn asserts that, because no personal information was exposed, this was not a
"security breach," but rather a violation of their terms of service due to banned data
Reference
The 63 Biggest Data Breaches (Updated for February 2022) | UpGuard. Upguard.com. (2022).
Retrieved 1 April 2022, from https://www.upguard.com/blog/biggest-data-breaches.