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Data Breach Exposes Information of Over 2 Million Subscribers

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🔓 Massive data breach exposes personal information of over 2 million subscribers at MC2 Data. In August 2024, a security researcher discovered that MC2 Data had left a database publicly accessible without a password, compromising the personal information of 2,122,280 subscribers. The exposed data included names, email addresses, and salted password hashes, raising significant privacy concerns. This incident is part of a larger breach that affected an estimated 100 million individuals, with sensitive records such as home addresses, dates of birth, and employment history also leaked. MC2 Data operates several background check services, and the breach highlights ongoing vulnerabilities in the handling of sensitive information by such companies.

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