DATA BREACH 1 - Indicates a data breach: if you know it, you avoid it 

Wednesday, May 23 2018

Il data breach  it is a term, mostly informatic, which indicates a data breach; represents a traumatic event because implies loss and / or theft of data, with consequent deterioration of technical and IT functionality.  

Sand the violation relook at personal data, the deterioration of functionalities can be accompanied, if not adequately and timely, by a situation of danger, physical or intangible physical damage, for individuals. Purely for example, the violation of personal data may result in restriction of the rights of the person, discrimination, theft or misappropriation of identity, financial loss, damage to reputation, loss of confidentiality of personal data protected by professional secrecy or any other economic damage or meaningful social to the natural person. 

A data breach is associated usually to the problem caused by various forms of hacking. A virus that damages data locally or on servers, malware that sends confidential credit card data elsewhere, a phishing that steals bank credentials, a ransomware that asks for a ransom or the forced encryption of data and their definitive loss. These are actually the most "violent" cases as they are caused by malicious attitudes generated outside our control and by our field of visibility as well as "illicitly". 

But, note, in the definition of the Regulation, article 4, the expression is reported "Accidentally or illicitly" It is therefore evident that the data breach is not, as is often thought, exclusively an attack from the outside. 

Examples of data breach equally serious they can be one illegible disk, due to hardware problems, or a software error that alters a database; the event of one lost key or smartphone from an employee with personal data, or worse sensitive; a data passed to the wrong person, through fault or malice (eg social engineering). 

Natale Castelliti

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