This gave them access to the genetic data of more than six thousand people — a small fraction of those around the country who have been sequenced.
Guardian analysis suggests three hops for a typical Facebook user could pull the data of more than 5 million people into the dragnet.
From analysing National Grid data of more than 4,000 half-hour periods over the last three months, a strong correlation between windiness and a reduction in gas-fired generation becomes clear.
Access to the data of more than a million teenagers and students and thousands of their parents is being sold to advertisers such as mobile phone and energy drinks companies by Ucas, the university applications body.
According to Bloomberg data, of more than 100 technology companies with at least $2bn in revenue for 2015, only one company had a faster pace of revenue growth in that quarter than Twitter; little-known tracking firm Zebra Technologies.
The court sits in Richmond, Virginia, home to more than two hundred thousand people, while Lavabit, at its height, hosted the electronic data of more than four hundred thousand customers paying for total privacy.
A separate report from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) attempts to shed some light on women's lack of pay progression by analysing the salary data of more than 60,000 UK managers and professionals.
These attacks are among the hundreds of online security breaches this year alone, compromising data of more than 22 million people, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
The study, published on Monday in the journal Health Affairs, was based on federal data of more than 800,000 deliveries at 593 hospitals in 2009.
No variable had missing data of more than 5%%.
Twenty detailed supplemental data tables guide through primary data of more than 200 original studies.
