Images posted to the Pastebin page suggest the hacking group accessed some sites by attacking the databases many companies use to catalogue and curate website content.
That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require. Stephen Cambone
Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM. Jay Chiat