Breach, Breached, or The Breach may refer to:
Places
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Breach, Kent
Breach is a small settlement in the Elham Valley about one mile (1.6 km) south of Barham, Kent, Barham(where, at the 2011 Census, the population was included) in Kent, England. It gives its name to nearby ''Barham Downs''.
External links , United Kingdom
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Breach, West Sussex, United Kingdom
* ''The Breach'',
Great South Bay
The Great South Bay is a lagoon situated between Long Island and Fire Island, in the State of New York. It is about long and has an average depth of 4 feet 3 inches and is 20 feet at its deepest. It is protected from the Atlantic Ocean by Fire Is ...
in the State of New York
People
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Breach (DJ)
Ben Westbeech is a British DJ and record producer originating from Hertfordshire who spent his formative musical years in Bristol. Trained as cellist and vocalist, his influences include house, soul, jazz and hip hop.
Music career Early ca ...
, an Electronic/House music act
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Miroslava Breach
Miroslava Breach Velducea (7 August 1962 – 23 March 2017) was a Mexican investigative journalist for ''La Jornada'' and ''Norte de Juárez'' in Chihuahua City, Mexico known for her reportage of human rights violations, drug trafficking, and g ...
(1963–2017), Mexican journalist
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
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''Breach'' (2007 film), a film directed by Billy Ray starring Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillippe
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''Breach'' (2020 film), a 2020 film starring Bruce Willis
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''The Breach'' (film), a 1970 French film by Claude Chabrol
Games
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''Breach'' (1987 video game), a 1987 action game by Omnitrend Software
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''Breach'' (2011 video game), a defunct 2011 first-person shooter by Atomic Games
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''Breach'' (2018 video game), a cancelled 2018 action RPG by QC Games
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''Breached'' (video game), a 2016 action puzzle by Drama Drifters
* Breach, an agent from the 2020 first-person shooter ''
Valorant
''Valorant'' is a free-to-play first-person tactical hero shooter developed and published by Riot Games, for Windows. Teased under the codename ''Project A'' in October 2019, the game began a closed beta period with limited access on April 7 ...
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Journalism
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''The Breach'' (media outlet), an online, Canadian news outlet launched in 2021
Music
Groups
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Breach (band)
Breach was a Swedish post-hardcore band formed in Luleå in 1993. The band, which included a large line-up near the end of their lifetime as a group, is noted for combining various elements of hardcore with metal music. They issued 4 full-length ...
, a Swedish post-hardcore band
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Breached
Breached was a Canadian rock band from Toronto, Ontario, active from 2010 to 2015. Its members were Bobby Noakes (vocals), Mike Diesel (guitar/vocals), Ryan Alexander (bass), and Neil Uppal (drums). Mike Diesel was a member of the band Age o ...
, a Canadian rock band
Albums
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''Breach'' (Lewis Capaldi EP), 2018
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''Breach'' (Shivaree EP), 2004
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''Breach'' (The Wallflowers album), 2000
Songs
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Breach (Walk Alone)
"Breach (Walk Alone)" is a song by Dutch DJ Martin Garrix and Polish DJ Blinders, The song was written by Garrix, Blinders, Dewain Whitmore and Ilsey Juber, With Juber Performing Uncredited Vocals. It is released via Stmpd label which is exclusi ...
", 2018, by Martin Garrix and Blinders
* "Breach", a song by Erra from the 2018 album ''
Neon
Neon is a chemical element with the symbol Ne and atomic number 10. It is a noble gas. Neon is a colorless, odorless, inert monatomic gas under standard conditions, with about two-thirds the density of air. It was discovered (along with krypton ...
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Television
* "Breach", a 2010 episode of the first season of ''
NCIS: Los Angeles''
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"The Breach" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2003 episode of the second season of ''Star Trek: Enterprise''
Other arts, entertainment, and media
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Breach (character)
Breach (Major Tim Zanetti) is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics. He first appeared in ''Breach'' #1 (March 2005) and was created by Bob Harras and Marcos Martin.
Publication history
''Breach'' was originally intended to be a reboot o ...
, a superhero from DC Comics
* Warp core breach, a catastrophic event aboard a starship in the ''
Star Trek
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The franchise has expanded into vari ...
'' fictional universe
Law
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Breach of confidence
The tort
A tort is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm, resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act. Tort law can be contrasted with criminal law, which deals with criminal wrongs that are ...
, a common law tort that protects private information that is conveyed in confidence
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Breach of contract
Breach of contract is a legal cause of action and a type of civil wrong, in which a binding agreement or bargained-for exchange is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract by non-performance or interference with the other party ...
, 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
In tort law, a duty of care is a legal obligation that is imposed on an individual, requiring adherence to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could foreseeably harm others. It is the first element that must be establis ...
, common law negligence
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Breach of promise
Breach of promise is a common law tort, abolished in many jurisdictions. It was also called breach of contract to marry,N.Y. Civil Rights Act article 8, §§ 80-A to 84. and the remedy awarded was known as heart balm.
From at least the Middle ...
, a former common law tort
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Breach of property, a civil wrong against property, either
trespass to land
Trespass to land is a common law tort or crime that is committed when an individual or the object of an individual intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) enters the land of another without a lawful excuse. Trespass to land is ''actionabl ...
or
trespass to chattels
Trespass to chattels is a tort whereby the infringing party has intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) interfered with another person's lawful possession of a chattel (movable personal property). The interference can be any physical cont ...
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Breach of the peace
Breach of the peace, or disturbing the peace, is a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries and in a public order sense in the several jurisdictions of the United Kingdom. It is a form of disorderly conduct.
Public ord ...
, a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries
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Efficient breach
In legal theory, particularly in law and economics, efficient breach is a voluntary breach of contract and payment of damages by a party who concludes that they would incur greater economic loss by performing under the contract.
Development of th ...
, a breach of contract that the breaching party considers desirable
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Fundamental breach Fundamental breach of contract, is a controversial concept within the common law of contract. The doctrine was, in particular, nurtured by Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls from 1962 to 1982, but it did not find favour with the House of Lords.
Wher ...
, a breach so fundamental that it permits the aggrieved party to terminate performance of the contract
Science, social science, and technology
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BREACH
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 ...
, a security exploit against the HTTPS protocol
*Breach,
whale surfacing behaviour
Cetacean surfacing behaviour is a grouping of movement types that cetaceans make at the water's surface in addition to breathing. Cetaceans have developed and use surface behaviours for many functions such as display, feeding and communication. A ...
(a whale's leap out of the water)
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Breaching experiment
In the fields of sociology and social psychology, a breaching experiment is an experiment that seeks to examine people's reactions to violations of commonly accepted social rules or norms. Breaching experiments are most commonly associated with et ...
, a social experiment that tests people's reactions to the violation of accepted social norms
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Data breach
A data breach is a security violation, in which sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen or used by an individual unauthorized to do so. Other terms are unintentional information disclosure, data leak, info ...
, the release of secure or private information to an untrusted environment
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Security breach
Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted Coercion, coercive change) caused by others, by restraining the freedom of others to act. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be of persons an ...
, unauthorized access to a computer
Other uses
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Door breaching
Door breaching is a process used by military, police, or emergency services to force open closed or locked doors. A wide range of methods are available depending on the door's opening direction (inward or outward), construction materials, etc., ...
, a process to force open closed and/or locked doors
See also
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Breech (disambiguation)
Breech may refer to:
* Breech (firearms), the opening at the rear of a gun barrel where the cartridge is inserted in a breech-loading weapon
* breech, the lower part of a pulley block
* breech, the penetration of a boiler where exhaust gases leave ...
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Tortious interference
Tortious interference, also known as intentional interference with contractual relations, in the common law of torts, occurs when one person intentionally damages someone else's contractual or business relationships with a third party, causing e ...
, a tort involving inducing persons to breach a contract
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