the.com/data leaks
the internet's version of a secret told to one friend who told everyone.
means an unintended exposure of private or protected information to people who were never supposed to see it.
from the term borrowed 'leak' from plumbing and journalism, where secrets escaped through cracks; digital security adopted it once databases started springing the same kind of holes.
biggest causehuman error, not hackers, most of the time
average discovery timecompanies often notice months later
cost per breachcan run into millions of dollars
favorite targetpasswords reused across multiple sites