Learn in the textbookFundamentals of Information Security and the Information Assets to Protect
DefinitionLeakage (漏えい) is damage in which information that should not be shown flows outside, so that unauthorized people learn its content.
ExplanationThe property that only authorized people can see information is called confidentiality, and leakage is the state in which it has been harmed. It happens when information is copied or when someone sneaks a look at a screen.
AnalogySomeone opens a safe with a duplicate key and photographs the documents inside.
Memory hookThe kanji 漏 depicts water dripping out of a container. Remember it as the contents seeping outside.