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Breach

nounid 4765·updated May 18, 2026
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The loss of control, compromise, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized acquisition, or any similar occurrence where: a person other than an authorized user accesses or potentially accesses personally identifiable information; or an authorized user accesses personally identifiable information for another than authorized purpose.

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

Event95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

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Information Class

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Variants

synonym
breakfalling outriftruptureseverance
plural
Breaches
possessive
Breach's
pluralpossessive
Breaches'

Framework definitions

Information Technology Laboratory Computer Security Resource Center Glossary1 senseview framework →
§1
The loss of control, compromise, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized acquisition, or any similar occurrence where: a person other than an authorized user accesses or potentially accesses personally identifiable information; or an authorized user accesses personally identifiable information for another than authorized purpose.
Wordset Dictionary3 sensesview framework →
§1
a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
§2
a personal or social separation, as between opposing factions
§3
an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)

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