Security News > 2020 > April > Lessons learned from the Small Business Administration's data breach
A data breach is an event that can affect any website, especially at the worst possible time.
One of the latest organizations impacted by a breach is the Small Business Administration through an incident in which the personal data of 7,913 users was mistakenly shared with other people.
Though details about the SBA's website breach are minimal, the incident itself serves as a warning sign and wake-up call to many organizations on how to protect their user data.
Ten minutes after replacing the onscreen data with his own, the applicant received a phone call from a business in Delaware saying that it now had all of his data.
"The first step anyone should take is to do a password cleanup. All accounts that are attached to sensitive payment information or business data should have their password and credentials updated immediately. This will mitigate some of the potential harm further down the road. Next, any person or business should contact financial institutions, alerting them of the breach and coming up with a plan for account monitoring and approval for any purchase from key accounts."
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