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Person Searchers

Q: Who owns Person Searchers?

Private Records LLC, an active Florida company at 1317 Edgewater Dr #1255 in Orlando, formed July 9, 2020. That name is on the California data-broker registry entry covering personsearchers.com, alongside three sister domains. Who controls the LLC is one step further than the record goes. Florida names the authorized member as another company, HB Services Holdings LLC, and we found no registration under that exact name.

Q: What does Person Searchers cost?

A five-day trial at $1.00 or $14.95, depending on the offer you land on, converting to $49.97 a month on the same card. The billing clock runs from the hour you registered, not from the end of the day. Fees are non-refundable by the terms' wording, so cancelling before the trial expires on (833) 567-9375 is the reliable move.

People Search
15-brand shared backend
On the 2024 MC2 leak list
Paid plans file this opt-out for youBeta

A subscription background-check site run by Private Records LLC of Orlando, Florida, selling reports from a claimed 12 billion public records behind a five-day trial that converts to $49.97 a month. It's one of four domains on its operator's California data-broker filing, and one of the fifteen brands researcher JayeLTee found on a backend exposed in 2024, whose admin accounts were @mc2data.com addresses. Its own terms warn that reports can carry records that were expunged or sealed.

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Person Searchers overview

At a glance

Quick facts

Redact's exposure rating

Substantial

LimitedModerateSubstantialExtensive

Data published: Editorial estimate
Re-listing frequency: Editorial estimate
Complaint record: Pattern of complaints
Opt-out friction: Moderate
Operator opacity: Obscured
Prior data incidents: On the 2024 MC2 leak list

Our editorial assessment from public sources as of October 8, 2026, and our own opt-out testing as of October 8, 2026. Each dimension is scored 1 to 4, higher means more exposure, and the overall gauge is their average, unless a confirmed breach holds it higher. It is an opinion, not a finding about the company's conduct or legal compliance. Dimensions marked "Editorial estimate" are estimated from the kind of service offered rather than observed on this site. How we score

On the 2024 MC2 leak list: a security researcher listed Person Searchers among the sites with users on the exposed server. We found no filing showing who ran that server. Being on the list still holds the overall rating at Substantial or higher.

What each dimension means

Data published: how much and how sensitive the personal data they put out.
Re-listing frequency: how quickly you reappear after opting out.
Complaint record: the volume and pattern of complaints across BBB, Trustpilot, and Sitejabber. No listing, or a listing with no reviews, counts against the broker.
Opt-out friction: how hard the removal process is to complete.
Operator opacity: how hidden the operating company and its principals are.
Prior data incidents: history of breaches or leaks of the data they hold.

Category: People search · background reports
Operating entity: Private Records LLC
Headquarters: Orlando, FL
Sister domains: privaterecords.net · peoplesearch123.com · backgroundcheckers.net
2024 exposed server: One of 15 brands · @mc2data.com admin accounts
CA registration: Private Records LLC · four domains on one CPPA filing
2024 deletion requests: 7,178 received · 7,178 granted in full (its own CPPA filing)
Pricing: 5-day trial ($1.00 or $14.95) → $49.97/mo
Opt-out: One-page request · takes effect once you click the link they email
FCRA covered?: Says it isn't a CRA · the operator answers "No" on its CPPA filing

Background

Site history

Person Searchers sells background reports by subscription. Type a name, get a list of matching people, then pay to see the full file. The site itself tells you almost nothing about who runs it. Every URL, including the privacy policy and the opt-out page, returns the same 3,927-byte empty JavaScript shell to anything that isn't a browser, and there's no robots.txt. What fills the gap is the regulatory paper trail, which is unusually clear.

Operating entity: Private Records LLC
Address: 1317 Edgewater Dr #1255 Orlando, FL 32804
Florida LLC: L20000196951 · filed July 9, 2020 · active
Registered agent: Registered Agent Solutions, Inc.
Domains on one filing: privaterecords.net · peoplesearch123.com · backgroundcheckers.net · this site
Server admin domain (2024): @mc2data.com (no filing ties Private Records LLC to MC2 Data)

The company on record is Private Records LLC, an active Florida LLC formed July 9, 2020, document number L20000196951, at 1317 Edgewater Dr #1255 in Orlando. That address and entity name also appear on the operator's California data-broker registration, which lists four websites on one filing (privaterecords.net, peoplesearch123.com, backgroundcheckers.net, and personsearchers.com), with support@privaterecords.net and (888) 270-9304 as the public contact. The older California Attorney General registration page for this operator still shows privaterecords.net alone, which is a snapshot from 2021 rather than a contradiction. The current CPPA registry is the one that covers this domain, and we read it from the registry CSV directly.

The rendered site claims the company was "started in 2020 by data scientists, engineers and customer service professionals" and advertises "over 12 billion public records," with a live counter that read 17,320,128 searches this year when we looked. The 2020 date matches the Florida filing.

Where it gets murkier is control. Florida's record names the authorized member as HB Services Holdings LLC (another company, not a person), and we found no registration under that exact name. So the chain stops one link up, which is common among the sites on that backend and worth knowing before you decide who to escalate to.

The MC2 Data link rests on the leak. In August 2024, security researcher JayeLTee found an exposed, passwordless database holding background-check records on more than 100 million Americans plus 2.3 million customer accounts, with every user record tagged to one of fifteen brands and its admin accounts on @mc2data.com addresses. He wrote that he didn't know if MC2 Data owns all these websites. DataBreaches.net published the enumerated list and personsearchers.com is on it. No corporate filing we can cite links Private Records LLC to MC2 Data, LLC. What connects them is the @mc2data.com admin accounts on the leaked backend and the shared site template.

The subscription is the product. The terms describe a five-day trial at $1.00 or $14.95 depending on the offer you land on, converting to $49.97 a month on the same card, billed on the hour five days from when you registered. Fees are non-refundable by the terms' own wording. There's a /refund-policy page, but it contains no refund terms. The actual money language lives on /terms.

Its own terms admit the reports can be wrong in a specific way. The site states that reports "may include records that have been expunged, sealed, or otherwise have become inaccessible to the public." If a court sealed something about you, this site says outright that its file might still show it.

Data Published

Data types

17 categories

Sensitive: elevated identity-theft, doxxing, or safety riskStandard public-record field

What the site says it searches, from its own rendered pages and privacy policy. It claims "over 12 billion public records from thousands of sources."

Full names and aliases
Address historySensitive
Phone numbers and email addresses
Relatives and known associatesSensitive
Criminal recordsSensitive
Court and arrest recordsSensitive
Sex-offender registry statusSensitive
Marriage and divorce recordsSensitive
Census and voter data
Social and dating profilesSensitive
Property recordsSensitive
AssetsSensitive
ForeclosuresSensitive
Weapon permitsSensitive
Business associates
PhotosSensitive
Expunged or sealed records (per its own terms)Sensitive

Some of these are add-ons, not defaults. Weapon permits, foreclosures, business associates, and assets are described as optional report sections rather than part of every search. They're listed here because the site offers them, not because every report contains them.

Contact

Contacts & links

Filed, not published

Operating entity: Private Records LLC
Mailing address: 1317 Edgewater Dr #1255 Orlando, FL 32804
Registered contact email: support@privaterecords.net
Registered phone: (888) 270-9304
Cancellations: (833) 567-9375
Opt-out: personsearchers.com/api/helper/optOutLight/search
Website: https://www.personsearchers.com/

Two different phone numbers, two different jobs. The number on the California filing, (888) 270-9304, is the operator's registered privacy contact and reaches Private Records LLC. The number in this site's terms, (833) 567-9375, is the billing and cancellation line. Use the second one for money questions and the first for privacy-rights escalation.

The billing line is also another company's registered contact. (833) 567-9375 is the number The People Searchers LLC (a separate company in Boynton Beach, Florida) gives on its own current California data-broker filing for People Searcher and SecretInfo. No filing documents any relationship between the two LLCs. What links them is a shared phone line, the same page template, and the backend exposed in 2024 that both LLCs' sites were on.

Network

Related sites

Four domains, one filing

Private Records LLC's California data-broker registration names four websites, and this is one of them. Beyond that filing sit the fifteen brands found on one leaked backend in 2024, whose admin accounts were @mc2data.com addresses, filed with California under five LLCs and all serving the same empty JavaScript shell to automated readers, this site's shell matching People Searcher and SecretInfo byte for byte.

One filing doesn't mean one opt-out. All four domains sit on a single California registration, but each runs its own removal form and none of them says a submission clears the others. Removal guidance published elsewhere is explicit that a Person Searchers opt-out covers Person Searchers only. Plan on doing all four.

No filing ties Private Records LLC to MC2 Data. Florida filings name HB Services Holdings LLC as Private Records LLC's authorized member and Researchence LLC as MC2 Data LLC's manager. No filing shows one owning the other, and the researcher who found the leak said he didn't know if MC2 Data owns these sites.

Owned or operated by Private Records LLC21 entities in this network · Orlando, FLExplore the full map

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peoplesearch123.com

backgroundcheckers.net

Reputation

Trust signals

Barely any footprint

For a site claiming twelve billion records, Person Searchers has left almost no public review trail. What exists is tiny, uniformly negative, and about billing.

BBB (Private Records LLC)Operator profile · not rated · listed as out of business · file opened Oct 2020Not ratedAs of 2026-08View profile ↗

Trustpilot1 review · 100% one-star · profile unclaimed1 reviewAs of 2026-08View reviews ↗

PissedConsumer2 reviews · one cites a $39.97 yearly charge1.3 / 5As of 2026-08

SmartCustomer (formerly Sitejabber)Listing exists with no reviews0 reviewsAs of 2026-08

What reviewers and complainants say, from the sources above. Redact hasn't verified these complaints.

Charged after the trial, or charged more than expected
Difficulty reaching anyone to cancel
Report content that didn't match what the search page implied

The BBB profile says "out of business" while the site is trading. BBB's status describes what BBB could verify about the company, not whether personsearchers.com is live. The site answers, sells subscriptions, and the operator filed a California registration covering it, so treat the BBB status as a note on the company's responsiveness rather than as evidence the site is gone.

Watch the name when you read reviews elsewhere. People Searcher, PeopleSearch.com, and PeopleSearchNow.com are all different sites with their own review histories, and search results mix them up with this one constantly. Ratings attached to those names don't describe Person Searchers.

Litigation

Litigation history

Not a defendant

Person Searchers carries the 2024 leak exposure without being a party to any of the litigation that followed it. A CourtListener party search finds no case naming personsearchers.com or Private Records LLC.

MC2 Data breach exposure

Not a party

August 2024 · 2.3M customer accounts · 15 brands on one backend

Researcher: JayeLTee · brand-ID mapping across 15 sites
This brand's status: On the enumerated 15-brand list
Corporate link to MC2: None documented in any filing we can cite
Class actions: Three, in S.D. Fla., all naming MC2 Data, LLC only

personsearchers.com appears on the fifteen-brand list JayeLTee derived from brand IDs inside the exposed database, published in full by DataBreaches.net. The class actions that followed (Smart, Bujok, and Jones, all in the Southern District of Florida) name MC2 Data, LLC as defendant and not Private Records LLC, so this brand sits inside the incident without being a party to the cases about it.

One sourcing note worth carrying. DataBreaches.net's report describes the exposed data as over 1.5 TB covering 2.3 million users and roughly 100 million entries. The widely-repeated 106,316,633 figure comes from the separate Cybernews investigation, and that investigation's shorter list of brands Cybernews linked to MC2 doesn't include this one.

We found no FTC enforcement action, no state attorney-general action, and no private lawsuit naming Private Records LLC or personsearchers.com. A CourtListener search returns nothing for either name as a party.

FAQ

Q & A

Who owns Person Searchers?

Private Records LLC, an active Florida company at 1317 Edgewater Dr #1255 in Orlando, formed July 9, 2020. That name is on the California data-broker registry entry covering personsearchers.com, alongside three sister domains. Who controls the LLC is one step further than the record goes. Florida names the authorized member as another company, HB Services Holdings LLC, and we found no registration under that exact name.

Does one opt-out cover the sister sites?

Assume not. privaterecords.net, peoplesearch123.com, and backgroundcheckers.net are on the same California filing, but each runs its own removal form and no page on any of them says a submission clears the others. Removal guidance published elsewhere agrees, saying a Person Searchers opt-out covers Person Searchers only. Do all four and keep each confirmation. Background Checkers, whose form couldn't be finished in August, has since moved to the same request page as the rest.

What does Person Searchers cost?

A five-day trial at $1.00 or $14.95, depending on the offer you land on, converting to $49.97 a month on the same card. The billing clock runs from the hour you registered, not from the end of the day. Fees are non-refundable by the terms' wording, so cancelling before the trial expires on (833) 567-9375 is the reliable move.

Can Person Searchers really show sealed or expunged records?

Its own terms say it can. The site states that reports "may include records that have been expunged, sealed, or otherwise have become inaccessible to the public." That's the company's language, not our characterisation. If a court sealed a record about you and this site is still showing it, the opt-out is the fastest route, and California residents have a statutory deletion right on top of it.

Was my data in the MC2 leak?

Possibly, if you were listed on this site before August 2024. The exposed database's user records carried brand IDs mapping to fifteen sites, personsearchers.com among them, and the database held records on more than 100 million people plus 2.3 million customer accounts. Opting out now clears your listing going forward. It does nothing about data already copied off that server.

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Last verified October 8, 2026.

Person Searchers' new removal page was read on this date and the opt-out facts here changed to suit. We didn't send a request through it. September 22, 2026 · Both BBB profiles reread; the Network section now cites Florida filings, not BBB, on MC2 Data. August 5, 2026 · Drafted from the operator's own terms, privacy policy, and opt-out pages (read through a render proxy - the site serves a JavaScript shell to automated readers), the California data-broker registry CSV downloaded and read directly, Florida corporate records via a Sunbiz mirror, the BBB profiles for both Private Records LLC and MC2 Data LLC, and a CourtListener party search.

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