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

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. 

While data leaks are sometimes unavoidable, in this case, MC2 Data is fully responsible, as it left a database containing 2.2TB of personal data passwordless.

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