Privacy Breach Glossary Definition

Term Privacy Breach
Definition

Privacy Breach is an incident involving unauthorized access to, disclosure of, or misuse of personal or privacy-sensitive information.

Context & Usage

Privacy Breach is used in privacy, data governance, records management, and compliance work to decide how information should be collected, protected, shared, retained, or minimized.

Categories Knowledge Management and Content Governance, Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Access Management