Breach

BREACH (a backronym: Browser Reconnaissance and Exfiltration via Adaptive Compression of Hypertext) is a security vulnerability against HTTPS when using HTTP compression. BREACH is built based on the CRIME security exploit. BREACH was announced at the August 2013 Black Hat USA conference by security researchers Angelo Prado, Neal Harris and Yoel Gluck.

Breach, Breached, or The Breach may refer to:

Places

Breach, Kent, United Kingdom Breach, West Sussex, United Kingdom The Breach, Great South Bay in the State of New York

People

Breach (DJ), an Electronic/House music act Miroslava Breach (1963–2017), Mexican journalist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

Breach (2007 film), a film directed by Billy Ray starring Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillippe Breach (2020 film), a 2020 film starring Bruce Willis The Breach (film), a 1970 French film by Claude Chabrol

Games

Breach (1987 video game), a 1987 action game by Omnitrend Software Breach (2011 video game), a defunct 2011 first-person shooter by Atomic Games Breach (2018 video game), a cancelled 2018 action RPG by QC Games Breached (video game), a 2016 action puzzle by Drama Drifters Breach, an agent from the 2020 first-person shooter Valorant

Journalism

The Breach (website), a Canadian news website launched in 2021

Music

Groups

Breach (band), a Swedish post-hardcore band Breached, a Canadian rock band

Albums

Breach (Lewis Capaldi EP), 2018 Breach (Shivaree EP), 2004 Breach (The Wallflowers album), 2000 Breach (Twenty One Pilots album), 2025

Songs

"Breach (Walk Alone)", 2018, by Martin Garrix and Blinders "Breach", a song by Erra from the 2018 album Neon

Television

"Breach", a 2010 episode of the first season of NCIS: Los Angeles "The Breach" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2003 episode of the second season of Star Trek: Enterprise

Other arts, entertainment, and media

Breach (character), a superhero from DC Comics Warp core breach, a catastrophic event aboard a starship in the Star Trek fictional universe

Law

Breach of confidence, a common law tort that protects private information that is conveyed in confidence Breach of contract, a situation in which a binding agreement is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract Breach of duty of care, common law negligence Breach of promise, a former common law tort Breach of the peace, a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries Efficient breach, a breach of contract that the breaching party considers desirable Fundamental breach, a breach so fundamental that it permits the aggrieved party to terminate performance of the contract

Science, social science, and technology

BREACH, a security exploit against the HTTPS protocol Breach, cetacean surfacing behaviour (a whale's leap out of the water) Breaching experiment, a social experiment that tests people's reactions to the violation of accepted social norms Data breach, the release of secure or private information to an untrusted environment Security breach, unauthorized access to a computer

Other uses

Door breaching, a process to force open closed and/or locked doors Breach (siege), the opening by artillery of a gap in the walls sufficient to be assaulted by infantry during siege warfare

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