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 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

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, whale 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

See also

• Breech (disambiguation)
• Tortious interference, a tort involving inducing persons to breach a contract