Identifying data security concerns
When a security breach occurs, sensitive, private, personal, or confidential information is exposed to untrustworthy or unsecured parties. This is exactly why we are of the opinion that data security (just like privacy and ethics) should be at the forefront of our minds and that we need to pinpoint it.
Intermezzo – data security facts
In the United States, 1,767 data breaches were reported in the first 6 months of 2021, with over 1,000 data leaks exposing more than 155.8 million records containing sensitive data (https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/data-privacy-security-stats/).
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) published the Data Breach report for 2021 on May 24, 2022. The number of Data Breach notifications was 24,866, a 4% increase from the previous year. Malware, phishing, or hacking were the sources of those breaches.
Data breaches can occur unintentionally or intentionally. When this occurs and there is no control over the...
