Databases Stories for 2019

Genetic Database That Identified Golden State Killer Acquired By Crime Scene DNA Company 39
US Shows a 'Concerning Lack of Regard For the Privacy of People's Biometrics' 58
Oracle Responds To Wage Discrimination Claims By Suing US Department of Labor 125
The NYPD Kept an Illegal Database of Juvenile Fingerprints For Years 63
Unusual New 'PureLocker' Ransomware Is Going After Servers 22
Mysterious Hacker Dumps Database of Infamous IronMarch Neo-Nazi Forum 186
'Game-Changer' Warrant Let Detective Search Genetic Database 108
DNA Databases Are a National Security Leak Waiting To Happen 35
AI Will Soon Be Able To Decode Your Poop 66
Nearly 7.5 Million Adobe Creative Cloud Users Exposed To Hackers 26
Open Database Leaked 179GB In Customer, US Government, and Military Records 15
US Takes Step To Require DNA Samples From Asylum-Seekers 357
FBI's Use of Surveillance Database Violated Americans' Privacy Rights: Court 23
Oracle Outperformed? TPC Benchmarks Show Alibaba's OceanBase Performs Twice As Well 46
New Federal Rules Limit Police Searches of Family Tree DNA Databases 40
Open-Source Database Scylla Gains DynamoDB Compatibility 8
The Fashion Line Designed To Trick Surveillance Cameras 95
Researchers Found World-Readable Database Used To Secure Buildings Around the Globe 9
Voter Records For 80% of Chile's Population Left Exposed Online 44
NYPD Adds Children As Young As 11 To Facial Recognition Database 76
Meds Prescriptions For 78,000 Patients Left In a Database With No Password 33
US Customs and Border Protection Says Traveler Photos and License Plate Images Stolen In Data Breach 79
Microsoft and Oracle Link Up Their Clouds 69
MongoDB Database Containing Over 275 Million Personal Records Exposed and Hacked 47
Google's Bad Data Wiped Another Neighborhood Off the Map 76
Massive Database Leak Exposes China's 'Digital Surveillance State' 72
Police In Canada Are Tracking People's 'Negative' Behavior In a 'Risk' Database 207
Proposed Bill Would Force Arizonians To Pay $250 To Have Their DNA Added To a Database 357
The Kremlin's Remote-Access Credentials Left Thousands Of Businesses Exposed For Years 54
India's Largest Bank SBI Leaked Account Data On Millions of Customers 23
Attackers Can Track Kids' Locations Via Connected Watches 33
Red Hat Rejects MongoDB's 'Discriminatory' Server Side Public License 106
Collection 1 Data Breach Exposes More Than 772 Million Email Addresses 68
Hackers Broke Into An SEC Database and Made Millions From Inside Information, Says DOJ 60
200 Million Chinese Resumes Leak In Huge Database Breach 70
AWS Launches Fully-Managed Document Database Service 59

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