More than 85,000 MySQL databases are currently on sale on a dark web portal for a price of only $550/database. The portal, brought to ZDNet's attention earlier today by a security researcher, is ...

The MySQL Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter engineering teams have joined forces to create their own version of MySQL, WebScaleSQL for their monster-sized databases.

The MySQL databases sold on the auction site range from 20 bytes to gigabytes in size, and are offered for the same amount - 0.03 bitcoins or $545 at current prices.