The actual number of people affected is expected to grow, in part because hackers accessed a database storing government forms used for security clearances, known as SF86 questionnaires, which contain the private information of multiple family members and associates for each government official affected, these officials said.

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Also Thursday, prosecutors submitted evidence to support their claim that Valle accessed a national database to look for information about three women -- twice in July 2011 and once in May 2012.

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Second, even if the database were accessed improperly, there's nothing in it other than those 13 DNA markers.

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Since smart cards retain transaction records, they could be accessed if even a well-protected database is destroyed.

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This week, in Scotland, seven BBC journalists were told that their medical records had been inappropriately accessed by a unnamed doctor in Fife through a new central database.

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The station database available through the application contains thousands of radio stations whose programmes can be accessed online.

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When an arrest is made, for example, a police officer enters the information and transmits it to the database, making the information available in the case file, which can be accessed and updated as the case continues through the system.

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The database that stores your critical credit card and other payment data was NOT affected or accessed.

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