noun phrase · academic
data breach
/ˈdeɪ.tə briːtʃ/da·ta BREACH
An incident where sensitive or confidential data is accessed or exposed without authorization.
Examples
“The retailer suffered a major data breach that affected millions of customers.”
“After the data breach, the company offered free credit monitoring to affected users.”
“Regulators fined the firm for failing to prevent the data breach.”
Band 8 sentence
“The cabinet concluded that inadequate safeguards had directly contributed to the massive data breach.”
Collocations
- suffer a data breach
- prevent a data breach
- investigate a data breach
Word family
Common mistakes
have data breach→suffer a data breach
a serious breach on data→a serious data breach
Say it for a higher band
5hack→6data leak→7+data breach
Synonyms
data leak
Easily confused
data leak
“Investigators discovered a data leak that preceded the larger data breach.”
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