Good luck keeping the past private now —criminal records of millions of Americans leaked online in major database breach

A hacker typing on a MacBook laptop with code on the screen.

Bad news for an Americans looking to keep their illegal pasts behind them, as researchers have flagged the leak of sensitive information on millions of convicted felons.

Malwarebytes has published a blog post detailing how a group of cybercriminals leaked a database containing criminal records of millions of Americans, thought to contain 70 million rows of data.