US Patent Issued to SpyCloud on May 19 for "Generating and monitoring fictitious data entries to detect breaches" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,544, issued on May 19, was assigned to SpyCloud Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Generating and monitoring fictitious data entries to detect breaches" was invented by David Endler (Austin, Texas), Alen Puzic (Austin, Texas) and Edward Ross (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process that includes: obtaining a fictitious data entry associated with a field present in a plurality of records associated with an online resource; sending a query to a monitoring application, the query specifying the fictitious data entry and a request to determine whether a second repository of compromised data includes the fictitious data entry...