What impact will data leakage have on enterprises?

1, corporate public reputation is damaged.

When data leakage occurs in an enterprise, the public will distrust the enterprise, thus affecting the public's choice. Therefore, data leakage accidents may cause enterprises to lose a number of customers, including potential customers.

After the exposure of Yahoo's mailbox leak, a large number of users abandoned it, and Yahoo, which is negotiating to acquire, is even difficult to sell.

2. The economic interests of the enterprise are damaged.

On the one hand, data itself is a part of enterprise property. When the data is leaked, this part of the data assets is equivalent to being handed over to others, which will pose a threat to the competitiveness of enterprises, indirectly increasing the cost and reducing the income.

On the other hand, the loss of reputation will lead to the decline of stock price and the loss of users, which will have a direct impact on the economic interests of enterprises.

At the end of last year, the user data of fun shops leaked, and the stock price continued to fall, even with a 30% opening dive.

3. Facing legal charges such as litigation.

Once the data is leaked, there will be victims, which may be the data source itself, or the downstream customers or other partners of the enterprise affected by the data leakage.

EquiFax, an American credit giant, is facing a class action lawsuit in the federal court in Portland, USA, for its 654.38+43 billion user information disclosure, and the compensation amount is as high as 70 billion US dollars.

4. Internal disharmony is easy to occur.

Some data leaks are caused by hacker attacks, and some are caused by poor internal management. The latter makes it easier for employees to have distrust of the enterprise, which in turn affects the overall unity of the enterprise.

Morrison, one of the world's top 500 supermarkets, had a leak accident-the salary details, addresses and bank accounts of 654.38 million employees were stolen by internal auditors and leaked for sale. Not only did the auditor go to jail, but Morrison was also taken to court by more than 5,000 employees, demanding that the enterprise be responsible for it and compensate for it.

5, causing high-level shocks

Behind a data leak, there must be various problems within the enterprise, and when a serious data leak occurs in the enterprise, there are usually executives who are responsible for it or even step down.

After the CEO of Miss America was exposed to the email scandal, the CEO left immediately; After Uber exposed 654.38 million+hacker hush money, the chief security officer was dismissed.