Data Breach
Also known as: Breach, Data leak
A data breach is an incident in which sensitive data is accessed or disclosed without authorisation. Infostealer infections are a frequent root cause, because the compromised credentials they produce are a common entry point for the intrusions that lead to breaches.
What is a data breach?
A data breach occurs when confidential information — customer records, credentials, intellectual property — is exposed to or taken by unauthorised parties. Breaches can stem from intrusions, misconfigurations, insider actions, or lost devices.
The infostealer-to-breach pipeline
Infostealers sit upstream of many breaches: a stealer harvests an employee's corporate credentials, those credentials are sold to an initial access broker, and an attacker uses them to enter the network and exfiltrate data or deploy ransomware.
By detecting compromised credentials early, VantaPrism helps organisations interrupt the infostealer-to-breach pipeline before stolen credentials are used to gain access.
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