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Each data breach, loss or modification has – the amount of data lost, and the type and severity, has a direct effect on the impact. The impact can range from a small inconvenience, such as having to recover a couple of files, to large and damage to customer confidence.
The data owned by businesses is called property (IP for short), which includes all of the knowledge, patents and copyrights held by a company. Loss of some of that data might not be a huge issue, but the loss of secret information that could be seen by a could have catastrophic consequences for competitive advantage.
Sometimes a hacker might take a system offline through of service attack, or following the discovery of a data breach, meaning that the company might have to go back to working on paper, with a huge loss of , and public-facing selling services might be unavailable too, resulting in a loss of .
When confidential information, such as personally identifiable information, is breached, fines may be issued by the Commissioner’s Office, and could be potentially millions of pounds for the largest companies. Businesses also store and handle -party data – e.g. companies such as Google and Microsoft may host your files and documents in their data centres.
A major data breach from a major company can lead to a loss of as affected customers take their business elsewhere, and potential new customers might be put off from joining. To offset the costs of a breach, some companies take out policies.
An evolving threat is cyber , espionage and hacking. A national government or a terrorist organisation could attempt to hack into government and servers to obtain classified information about the government, the running of the country and information about military institutions – all threats to security.