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破損Corruption

Learn in the textbookFundamentals of Information Security and the Information Assets to Protect

DefinitionCorruption (破損) is damage in which information or equipment breaks, so the correctness of its content (integrity) or its usable state can no longer be maintained.

ExplanationIf a file's content breaks and can no longer be read correctly, integrity is harmed, and if equipment or media break and stop working, availability is harmed. Which property is harmed depends on what broke and how.

AnalogyWater spills on a notebook and the ink runs, so what you wrote becomes unreadable or looks like different words.

Memory hookThe word combines 破 (to tear or break) and 損 (to impair). Read it as the form breaking and the value dropping.