Hackers stole Russian prisoner database to avenge death of Navalny

Within hours of opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s death in February in a Russian prison, a group of anti-Kremlin hackers went looking for revenge. Using their access to a computer network tied to Russia’s prison system, the hackers plastered a photo of Navalny on the hacked prison contractor’s website, according to interviews with the hackers, screenshots … Read more

Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal

MariaDB is the subject of another potential takeover bid, as the company behind the eponymous open source relational database management system (RDBMS) confirmed it had received a provisional offer from California-based K1 Investment Management. K1 quietly revealed on Friday that it had tabled what is known as an “unsolicited non-binding indicative proposal” for MariaDB, which … Read more

Open source vector database startup Qdrant raises $28M

Qdrant, the company behind the eponymous open source vector database, has raised $28 million in a Series A round of funding led by Spark Capital. Founded in 2021, Berlin-based Qdrant is seeking to capitalize on the burgeoning AI revolution, targeting developers with an open source vector search engine and database — an integral part of … Read more

US School Shooter Emergency Plans Exposed in a Highly Sensitive Database Leak

Fowler says all the exposed documents appear to have been uploaded by schools to Raptor Technologies’ systems, some at a regularly monthly cadence. Within some school reports, Fowler says, he saw specific details such as officials noting doors that don’t lock or that a security camera has not been working for months. “If a domestic … Read more

Yellen says 100,000 firms have joined a business database aimed at unmasking shell company owners

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is announcing that 100,000 businesses have joined a new database that collects “beneficial ownership” information on firms as part of a new government effort to unmask shell company owners. Yellen, in remarks prepared for delivery Monday, says the new Treasury database that is collecting beneficial ownership information sends … Read more

Chinese business database Qichacha passes Beijing’s data export test

Chinese business database Qichacha said it passed a data export security assessment that allows the company to resume overseas operations. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese business database Qichacha said Friday it passed a data export security assessment that allows the company to resume overseas operations. The news signals an … Read more

Why Monday.com decided to build its new database instead of buying one

Monday.com launched more than a decade ago looking to help companies build a highly flexible set of business tools like CRM, marketing, operations and HR, built in customized ways you simply couldn’t find out of the box. It learned that companies not only liked that flexibility, but they also pushed the boundaries so far that … Read more

ScyllaDB raises $43M to scale its NoSQL database platform

Investors have an appetite for databases, it seems. Today, ScyllaDB, a startup developing database tech for high-throughput, low-latency workloads, announced that it raised $43 million in a funding round led by Eight Roads Ventures with participation from AB Private Credit Investors, AllianceBernstein, TLV partners, Magma Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures. The new cash will be put … Read more

Hackers are selling the data of millions lifted from 23andMe’s genetic database

23andMe posted a blog yesterday saying that data from users of its genetic testing and analysis platform has been circulating on dark web forums after hackers used recycled logins to gain access to get into accounts. BleepingComputer wrote on Thursday that a hacker leaked what they said was “1 million lines of data” for Ashkenazi … Read more