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What is a "breach"?

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What is a "breach"?

A data breach is essentially when information is hacked. Whether from the inside, an employee hacked it, download it, exploited it or from the outside. A hacker, black hat hacker generally got into through the firewall or through the network, through a wireless connection and was able to access information and then download it, extract it from the databases to use it for various purposes.

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