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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It culminated in the last decades of his life in a forward-thinking creation he called the Global Jukebox Project, an early computer database that organized and compared various forms based on geography, style, and subsistence patterns.

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Since an ETF is traded like a stock, the sponsor doesn't have to keep a database of accounts (or generate tax forms for them).

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It's a tedious job--reading information off scanned-in images of forms then punching it into a database running on a mainframe computer.

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Swapping is done in private forms rather than via a public, central database that Napster uses.

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Essentially, it is made up of various forms you must fill out in order to populate a database that would then spit back the information at you, in a slightly more organized or graphical way.

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