What is considered a cloud data breach?

Cyber threats posing as authorized entities is a method (like phishing or spoofing) that could *lead* to a data breach, but it is not the definition of the breach itself.

A cloud data breach specifically involves unauthorized access to or exposure of data stored or processed within cloud environments, often resulting from the exploitation of vulnerabilities in cloud application access, misconfigurations, or compromised credentials. This exploitation leads to the compromise of data integrity, confidentiality, or availability within the cloud infrastructure.

Deprivation of computing resources describes a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, which impacts availability but is not directly a data breach (data exposure).

Leaked information that is private is the *result* or symptom of a data breach, not the definition of the breach event, which is the unauthorized access or exploitation.