Technical Report from the year 2012 in the subject Computer Science - Applied, grade: none, Royal Holloway, University of London, course: M.Sc. Information Security, language: English, abstract: As technology evolves, the threat landscape evolves. The threat landscape has changed from mere script kiddies for fun to organised cyber crime to steal data for identity theft and monetary gains. It is very important to protect the business data from all kind of data breach attacks in order to maintain the brand reputation and customer faith. New laws and governance policies make it mandatory for organisations to protect customer data. This project talks about the different effect of data breaches and preventive measures. This project targets mostly on the 'confidentiality' trait of the information security's CIA triad.