The document highlights the severe consequences of data breaches by presenting cases ranked by users affected and monetary losses. Examples include Yahoo’s 3 billion accounts compromised, India’s Aadhaar breach exposing 1.1 billion citizens, LinkedIn’s 700 million users, and Facebook’s 533 million accounts. Financially, Equifax’s 2017 breach cost over $1.38 billion, while Target, TJX, and Yahoo settlements each ran into hundreds of millions. The Epsilon incident, though exaggerated in cost estimates, shows how misinformation complicates risk assessment. To mitigate threats, organizations are urged to maintain updates, enforce least privilege, use anti-malware and endpoint defenses, back up data securely, apply consistent protections across cloud and on-premises, and adopt proactive risk ma

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