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The gap where something defended becomes something invaded, one weak link at a time.
means A breach is a gap or break in something that was supposed to hold — a wall, an agreement, a wall of trust, a sea defense — created when it's broken, violated, or burst through.
from From Old English 'brǣc,' meaning a breaking, rooted in the same ancient verb that gives us 'break' — both descend from a Proto-Germanic root '*brekan.' The word's earliest life was literal: a hole smashed in a fortification or a dam. From that physical rupture grew all the figurative breaks — of contracts, of promises, of the peace — and the soldier's cry to storm the gap, immortalized in 'once more unto the breach.' Whales, fittingly, 'breach' when they break the surface, leaping out of the very water that contained them.
- average cost
- Global data breaches now average millions per incident
- naval origin
- Sailors breached hulls long before hackers breached firewalls
- detection lag
- Many breaches go unnoticed for months
- legal weight
- Breach of contract built entire bodies of law
- whale habit
- Whales breach, hurling tons of body skyward
equifax data breach — 2017 breach exposed 147 million people's personal data in the us
target data breach — 2013 breach stole 40 million credit card numbers during holiday shopping
facebook cambridge analytica — 2018 breach exposed 87 million users' data to political consulting firm