https://www.tomshardware.com/news/a-mysterious-database-exposed-200-million-americans-personal-info
By Nathaniel Mott
Toms Hardware
03/23/2020
Here's a strange one: CyberNews reported Friday that a Google Cloud
database exposed the personal information of roughly 200 million
Americans. It's not clear who owned the database, however, and it appeared
to have been wiped on March 3. But that wasn't actually the end of the
saga; things only got weirder from there.
First things first. CyberNews said the database contained 800GB of data in
three folders. The first had 200 million records about American
individuals, the second had "emergency call logs of a fire department
based in the U.S." and the third had "a list of some of the 74 bike share
stations that used to belong to a bike share program."
CyberNews said the records collected the following information about their
subjects:
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