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Data corruption

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Errors in computer data that occur during writing, reading, storage, transmission, or processing, which introduce unintended changes to the original data.

MWEFederal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary

Classifications

Entity Type

Event100%manual reviewI-079.event_restored
Ddorianclast reviewed —
Event is a type again; Triggering Event is an Event that obliges a response (Dorian, 2026-10-07; cki DESIGN.md I-079)

Sensitivity

—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
?unassignedlast reviewed —

Information Class

—50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
?unassignedlast reviewed —

Variants

plural
Data corruptions
possessive
Data corruption's
pluralpossessive
Data corruptions'