the.com/data breach
the moment your secrets become someone else's spreadsheet.
means an incident where sensitive information is accessed, stolen, or exposed without authorization.
from the term rose with the internet age, but the concept is old as filing cabinets left unlocked; digitization just let the leak happen at scale, in seconds, to millions at once.
average costover 4 million dollars per incident globally
detection timeoften takes companies over 200 days to notice
biggest culpritstolen or weak passwords, not genius hackers