Open AccessData Breaches - Staying safe online in 21st Century
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of modern trends in science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-3778
DOI - 10.46501/ijmtst0702023
Subject(s) - data breach , internet privacy , personally identifiable information , business , computer security , information sensitivity , the internet , information privacy , identity theft , data security , computer science , world wide web , encryption
A breach of data is a reported occurrence where private, sensitive, or covered records have beencompromised and/or released unlawfully mostly due to cyber attacks or theft. Breach of data can includepersonal health records, personal information, travel information, trade secrets, intellectual property, orinformation you provided to or is stored on a platform. Data revealed to breaches pose a security and privacyrisk to Users around the world. Despite these, guidelines on how organizations can react to breaches, or howto manage information securely once it has leaked, still haveto be established. More than 3 billion peoplesuffered and became victims of data breaches and cyber attacks in the last two decades leading to loss ofpersonal data as well as monetary loss. This research paper conducts real time research about awareness ofdata privacy, kind of data/information that needs to be protected, basic protocols for staying safe online, andsome of the biggest corporate data breaches that happened in this century. We bring people from differentcities of India in this study through a survey and use the data provided by these 150 participants to examinetheir understanding of data privacy, their concern regarding their online data and the practices they follow intheir daily life to keep their online data safe in this age of computers and internet.