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Teenager hacks open Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts

September 28

What do you get when you cross a bored teenager with free time and excellent computer skills? A hack of a Microsoft database with trillions of records on hand and 25,000 records of employee data, of…

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