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This was the case in the 2015 VTech data breach, in which the data on 5 million adults and 200,000 children was compromised. In some instances, hackers want to steal your data just to prove that they can. Though cybercriminals will steal any data that can be sold, used to breach other accounts, steal your identity, or make fraudulent purchases with.

With most data breaches, cybercriminals want to steal names, email addresses, usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers. Broken or misconfigured access controls.

Common cyberattacks used in data breaches include the following: Rather, a data breach comes as a result of a cyberattack that allows cybercriminals to gain unauthorized access to a computer system or network and steal the private, sensitive, or confidential personal and financial data of the customers or users contained within. Unlike most of the other topics weвЂ™ve covered under Cybersecurity Basics, a data breach isnвЂ™t a threat or attack in its own right. Not to mention the data of hundreds of millions of people like you who had the bad luck of doing business with a company that got hacked.

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The criminals responsible will have enjoyed unfettered access to databases full of valuable data-your valuable data. By the time the security failure is discovered and fixed, the damage is already done. It takes another 69 days to remediate the data breach. According to the Ponemon InstituteвЂ™s 2018 Cost of a Data Breach study, a data breach goes undiscovered for an average of 197 days. In many instances, an organization or company wonвЂ™t even know theyвЂ™ve been breached until years later. The list of companies that were hacked by cybercriminals reads like a whoвЂ™s who list of the worldвЂ™s biggest tech companies, retailers, and hospitality providers-and thatвЂ™s only the data breaches that we know about. The Malwarebytes Labs blog called 2018 the year of the data breach.