Who hasn't come across the "big data" buzz term yet? Everyone's doing it: Collecting lots of information via sensors, public data sets going back years, all manners of sources. That big data has to go somewhere, and be accessible from the internet to be of use to researchers and others, of course. Did you wonder if those big databases storing huge amounts of information were safe and secure? Related Content Juha Saarinen: Startups set to leave banks in digital dust Juha Saarinen: Regulate Facebook before it's too late Juha Saarinen: It's time to work kinks out of the internetThere's no evidence that the attackers spent the probably considerable amount of time and had the costly bandwidth and storage capacity required to back up the data before deleting it.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 24, 2017 08:10 UTC