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Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks' personal details sitting on the open internet using a Chinese IP address? Seriously, why?

Asok Asus

"We have withheld further details for privacy protection reasons."

uh, since that makes it impossible to verify that this supposedly open-to-the-public database even exists, how do we know that hacker "lynx" isn't just making this up?

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