Online data are being produced in increasing amounts due to extensive use of Internet, IoT devices and generating previously physical data in digital form. These data are stored in diverse formats. Practitioners and researchers can be benefited significantly if these massive heterogeneous data could be integrated and made accessible. But often data can reveal user identity and sensitive information that can lead to loss of privacy which in turn leads to loss of trust, reputation and user base of a company/government. In this paper, we have provided a state of the art review of the privacy threats by studying the recent data breaches. According to our study, loss of user privacy leads to great loss of reputation and monetary value of any institution We have tried to understand the perspective from the victim’s point of view for the incidents. We have provided few measures in relation to the incidents through which it can be avoided in future.
AmitMandliya/recent-data-breach-analysis
Online data are being produced in increasing amounts due to extensive use of Internet, IoT devices and generating previously physical data in digital form. These data are stored in diverse formats. Practitioners and researchers can be benefited significantly if these massive heterogeneous data could be integrated and made accessible. But often data can reveal user identity and sensitive information that can lead to loss of privacy which in turn leads to loss of trust, reputation and user base of a company/government. In this paper, we have provided a state of the art review of the privacy threats by studying the recent data breaches. According to our study, loss of user privacy leads to great loss of reputation and monetary value of any institution We have tried to understand the perspective from the victim’s point of view for the incidents. We have provided few measures in relation to the incidents through which it can be avoided in future.