Researchers have discovered a huge data leak originating from background check firm MC2 Data, which apparently left a 2.2TB database online without a password, freely accessible to anyone on the internet.
The team at Cybernews says the data is said to have included the private information of 106,316,633 US citizens, almost a third of the nation's population. As a background check company, MC2 Data held personally identifiable information on a range of people - including names, addresses, phone numbers, legal records, employment history, and more.
