Published 09/24/2024 11:28:00 a.m.

106 million Americans exposed as massive data leak rocks background check firm

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Hot on the heels of the National Public Records data breach, which leaked more than 2 billion records, another background check firm has now had a leak. The company in question, MC2 Data, exposed the sensitive data of around one-third of the U.S. population – 106 million people – to the entire internet.

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