More than 218 million Words with Friends player accounts were affected - including players' email addresses, names, login IDs and more - when a hacker got into one of the game's databases and targeted users who'd installed the game app prior to a crucial update. While those affected were fewer in number, a potentially more dangerous breach occurred in September when an open, misconfigured government database leaked 20.8 million Ecuadorian user records -- that's in a country whose official population is about 17.5 million -- including birth data, marital status and national ID numbers, as well as full home addresses, children's information, phone numbers and education records. As a security expert, list out the five (5) controls to prevent this type of security breach from happening again.

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