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The data breaches of 2012 compromised almost twenty-eight million private records. The year 2015 is still underway, therefore no information gathered by Privacy Rights Clearinghouse so far for 2015 was utilized. Instead, as of 2014, there have been around four thousand data breaches made public since 2005, compromising about seven hundred thirty million private records. Of the four thousand public data breaches that have occurred between 2005 and 2014, one thousand six hundred public breaches are business-related, either through financial and insurance businesses, retail and merchant businesses among other types of businesses. Business-related data breaches between 2005 and 2014 constitute forty percent of the publicized data breaches,

Data breach of personal information can be very disturbing. Even, where the breach involves accidental and unintentional misuse of information, if the breach affects many individuals, the scale of the breach may create greater risks that the information will be misused. For example, some of the results from breach are: financial loss, identity theft, loss of employment opportunities, humiliation, and social bullying at workplace. Also, data breach can cause loss of public trust in the agency, reputational damage, losing assets, legal liability, and breach of secrecy provision in applicable legislation.

A breach occurs when an unauthorized person accesses private information, either intentionally or unintentionally. Usually, it is referred to electronic breaches where data on computers, servers or discs fall into the wrong hands (Cook, 2010). In today’s world, barely a day goes by without some news reporting some type of data breach. Breach of data incidents grow in frequency and severity, despite the regulatory requirements for data privacy protection and incident notification becoming more stringent.

Holbrook, E. (2010). The mother of all data breaches. Fore Front, 57(9), 1-3. Retrieved from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=ba3be2fe-248e-4be3-867c-0b7b83b50492%40sessionmgr103.

In today’s technological era, where data are now stored in a intangible computer cloud, always connected and our dependency on accessing these data centers for critical information has increased dramatically over the years, are now proving to showcase a major flaws in security. Gone are the times when the need to store data locally on an unconnected storage device. Today most devices are

Data breaches are probably most deadly and least aware of dangers we worry about. While data heists do lack the glamor of a bank heist or a casino robbery, it definitely has a lot more punch in terms of the damage that it can cause in everyday lives. In fact no Hollywood director would be half as interested in showing a nerdy guy sitting before his computer reading through infinite amounts of stolen information, as much as he/she would like to show a heist in a bank for it provides much more thrilling visuals. However we need to understand and recognize the disastrous power of data breaches to be personally aware and to demand protection from our favorite places of shopping, work, and leisure.

Personal data breaches have become epidemic in the U.S. where innocent citizens sensitive information is being left unprotected and subsequently disseminated between hackers. ChoicePoint is an organization that is a premier data broker and credentialing service in the industry. The company was guilty of failing to fulfil their own policy of thoroughly evaluating prospective customer organizations which resulted in a major breach. The source of this failure will be evaluated as well as possible solutions. The punishment and repercussions will be evaluated for appropriateness and the reactions of the organization will be scrutinized for potential effectiveness.

Mobile devices are a mixed blessing for enterprises. CRN reported on a Poneman Institute, a IT security research firm, found that 77 percent of corporate professionals who responded to the survey said that the use of mobile devices in the workplace is important to achieving business objectives, but almost the same percentage, 76 percent, believe that these tools present a serious set of security risks. While organizations comprehend the

Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have allowed major productivity in the field and in the office and are starting to become an integral part of the business lifestyle. Although their intelligence allows greater productivity, it also makes them vulnerable to attack. A network is only as secure as its weakest link.

With the appearance and development of the World Wide Web and other electronic strategies for mass interchanges, buyer protection has turned into an outstanding issue. Individual data, when abused or deficiently secured, can bring about wholesale fraud, budgetary extortion, and different problems that altogether cost individuals, organizations, and governments a significant number of dollars every year. What 's more, Internet violations and common question devour court assets, confound legislators, and police offices, and produce untold individual exacerbation. (http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/definition/consumer-privacy)

My paper describes about the most important and burning issue in any organization which is “Data Breaching”. Any industry whether it’s a large scale industry or a small scale industry handles very valued information. This paper describes about the causes and effects of this data breaching with an example. Recently, the data breaches are increasing at an alarming pace. So, my article proposes the preventive measures to be applied in an organization to mitigate the harmful effects of breaching. So, unless the data is security is improved in all aspects the breaching cannot be stopped.

In my opinion, the paper made me agree with many significant aspects in connecting several data breaches that were recently happened, along with some strategy insights that could be deployed to strengthen and prevent similar incidents in the future. Starting with the introduction, the author was informative in convincing me on the important and the impact of information security not only in the public and privet sector of a country, but in general by enlightening me about cyber security, its different forms, and the reasons why attackers perform it. Then, the author goes further in clarifying the situation regarding the UA breach, even when there were some questions about the motive behind it since the compromised information is not on

In the last decade it’s amazing how technology has advanced over the years and will continue to advance for many years to come. Every year there is a new cell phone from Apple or Samsung, with new features that make our lives more convenient. From faster software to higher picture quality and so on. I am unable to recall the last time I used a camera to take pictures or went to the bank to deposit a check. Technology advances every day and many can’t wait to see what’s next to come. But with new technology comes greater risk for violations of privacy. In the following research paper I will discuss the types of security breaches and the cost associated with these breaches that businesses around the world face on a daily basis.

In today society almost everyone has some form of computer or phone with internet capacity that are exposed to hackers and those that wish to interrupt the cyber world. It is imperative that we all become better educated to the risks and pitfalls that go along with accessing cyber space from any kind of device with access to the world-wide web. Be it by cell device, laptop, notebook, or home computer. I would like to take this time to inform others of the current trends being used to secure not only our devices but our privacy and what the future holds for the growing security and privacy problems in the cyber world.

With the rapid growth of mobile computing, mobile device become a necessary tool in our daily life. Without mobile device our life quality, efficiency will totally decrease. Users just need to connect to network and gather information they want in a few second. Although mobile devices bring us convenient, mobile devices contain large amount of personal data, including emails, photos, contact data, financial, and medical information, privacy issue [1] occur due to users unknowingly expose their privacy through mobile application, camera, network etc. and their use poses a serious threat to both personal and corporate security. It greatly extending the reach of technology and raising concerns that prevailing traditions of privacy may be challenged.