Broker profile

PrivateReports

  • People Search
  • MC2 Data network
  • Named in 2024 MC2 leak

The namesake brand of the Infomatics LLC registration family - one California data-broker filing covers PrivateReports and its sister sites MugshotLook and PublicSearcher. It sells background reports compiled from court, property, and USPS change-of-address records, behind a $1 trial that BBB complaints say converts to a $49.82 monthly subscription. Cybernews's 2024 investigation names PrivateReports as one of five consumer brands running on the MC2 Data backend that exposed 106 million Americans' records.

PrivateReports homepage screenshot

PrivateReports overview

At a glance

Quick facts
Privacy Risk
LimitedModerateSubstantialExtensive
Data published
Extensive
Re-listing frequency
Recurring
Complaint record
Pattern of complaints
Opt-out friction
Moderate
Operator opacity
Obscured
Prior data incidents
Major breach

Each broker is scored 1 to 4 across the six dimensions above; higher means more exposure, and the overall gauge is their average.

A confirmed prior data leak holds the overall rating at Substantial or higher; a major or repeat breach forces Extensive, regardless of the other five dimensions.

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

Infomatics LLC

Headquarters

Woodland Hills, CA

Backend network

MC2 Data · press-named brand

BBB rating

D · 22 complaints

2024 data leak

106M records exposed

Pricing

$1 trial → $49.82/mo (per BBB complaints)

Opt-out

On-site form + email verification

Background

Background

Site history

PrivateReports is the plainest product in its family - a visitor enters a first name, last name, and state, and the site sells a background report compiled from public records like court filings, property records, and USPS change-of-address forms, behind a $1 trial. The rendered site never names its operator. Its paper trail does - the California data-broker registration #542906 names Infomatics LLC of Woodland Hills, California. Its current CPPA filing covers three domains under that one registration - PrivateReports, MugshotLook, and PublicSearcher.

Operating entity

Infomatics LLC

Address

21781 Ventura Blvd #105A Woodland Hills, CA 91364

Sister registrations

mugshotlook.com · publicsearcher.com (same CA filing)

Backend cluster

MC2 Data (press attribution, no filing ties them)

BBB record

"Infomatics LLS aka PrivateReports" · file opened May 2022

Founding date

BBB says 2003 · CorporationWiki says CA LLC filed 2020

The bigger story is what PrivateReports runs on. The 2024 Cybernews investigation into the MC2 Data leak names five MC2-operated consumer brands - PrivateRecords.net, PrivateReports, PeopleSearcher, ThePeopleSearchers, and PeopleSearchUSA - and coverage from Malwarebytes, TheCyberExpress, and ClassAction.org repeats the naming. The exposed database held 106,316,633 records, roughly a third of the US population, plus data on 2,319,873 paying subscribers, sitting in 2.2 TB with no password. Have I Been Pwned indexed the breach in December 2024.

How Infomatics LLC relates to MC2 Data corporately is not documented in any filing we can cite - what links them is the press naming PrivateReports directly, plus the shared site template and opt-out infrastructure across the wider family. The paper trail has loose threads of its own. The BBB profile spells the entity "Infomatics LLS" - almost certainly a typo for LLC - and says the business started in March 2003, while a cached CorporationWiki record says the California LLC was filed in August 2020. Those dates conflict, and we can't resolve them from any source we could read, so we report both.

The subscription is the product. BBB complaints describe a $1 trial - one complainant says it was advertised as a free criminal report with a $1 fee - that auto-enrolls into a $49.82 monthly subscription. The price appears to have risen. Complaints from mid-2023 through August 2024 name $39.82 as the recurring charge, and every complaint from December 2024 onward names $49.82. If you only wanted one report, check your card statement.

Data Published

Data types

10 categories

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

What the product is documented to compile, per the Higbee law opt-out guide and BBB complaint texts.

  • Full names, searched by first name, last name, and state
  • Contact information - phone numbers and email addresses
  • Court filings and other legal recordsSensitive
  • Criminal-record reports - the $1 trial productSensitive
  • Property recordsSensitive
  • USPS change-of-address dataSensitive

Fields breach reporting says the leaked MC2 Data pool behind the brand family additionally held.

  • Current and past home addressesSensitive
  • Dates of birthSensitive
  • Employment history
  • Family, relatives, and neighborsSensitive

We couldn't read the site itself. privatereports.com renders as a blank page without JavaScript, so its privacy policy, terms, and checkout screens couldn't be read directly. The lists above come from the operator's California registration, third-party opt-out guides, BBB complaint texts, and breach reporting - not from the site's own marketing.

Contact

Contacts & links

From registry filings
Operating entity

Infomatics LLC (BBB: "Infomatics LLS aka PrivateReports")

Address

21781 Ventura Blvd #105A Woodland Hills, CA 91364

CCPA-registered channel
Postal (opt-out fallback)

Infomatics LLC, ATTN: PrivateReports 21781 Ventura Blvd #105A, Woodland Hills, CA 91364

One filing, three domains. The registration covers PrivateReports, MugshotLook and PublicSearcher. The Attorney General's page shows only the first two, because its website field renders them concatenated as "https://www.privatereports.com-mugshotlook.com", while the current CPPA registry lists all three. The email and phone above are the contacts on that filing, which makes them the registered privacy channel for every domain on it.

Network

Sister brands

One template family

PrivateReports is where the family's paper trail knots together. Its registration ties MugshotLook to the same operator, and Cybernews names PrivateReports directly among the five MC2 Data consumer brands, alongside PrivateRecords.net, PeopleSearcher, ThePeopleSearchers, and PeopleSearchUSA. The longer brand list tied to the same leak - the extended family below - traces to leak-list reporting by the researcher JayeLTee and DataBreaches.net rather than to the Cybernews article itself. The one exception is thepeoplesearchers.com, which Cybernews names but which isn't on that leaked-backend list under that exact name.

Each brand needs its own opt-out. The network shares a backend and an identical opt-out flow, but the operator has never confirmed that suppression propagates across brands. Treat every site in the family as a separate removal, starting with the ones that surface your records.

Owned or operated by Infomatics LLC22 entities in this network · Woodland Hills, CAExplore the full map

Reputation

Trust signals

Thin and negative

PrivateReports has almost no consumer-review footprint under its own name - no Trustpilot page exists for the domain, and its SmartCustomer listing holds zero reviews. What it does have is a BBB file one letter off the floor, with complaints concentrated on the billing model rather than the data itself.

Better Business BureauInfomatics LLS aka PrivateReports · 22 complaints in 3 yearsDAs of 2026-08View profile ↗
TrustpilotNo review page found for privatereports.comNo listingAs of 2026-08Check Trustpilot ↗
SmartCustomer (formerly Sitejabber)Listing exists · zero reviewsNo reviewsAs of 2026-08View listing ↗
  • $1 trial - marketed around a criminal-report lookup - converting to a $49.82/month subscription complainants say was never clearly disclosed

  • Unauthorized charges from people who say they never used the site

  • Small recurring charges continuing after cancellation

  • Paid reports that complainants say contained none of the promised information

  • Refunds usually issued once a BBB complaint is filed, though one complaint went unanswered

Litigation

Litigation history

Named defendant

Unlike most of its template family, PrivateReports' operator is a defendant in its own name - New Jersey's Daniel's Law wave reached Infomatics LLC directly, and the backend the press attributes to MC2 Data drew class actions after the 2024 leak.

Atlas Data Privacy Corp. v. Infomatics, LLC

Active

D.N.J. 1:24-cv-04041 (filed as 2:24-cv-04041) · New Jersey Daniel's Law · Filed March 20, 2024

Statute

New Jersey Daniel's Law (N.J.S.A. 56:8-166.1)

Plaintiff

Atlas Data Privacy Corp., assignee of ~19,000 covered persons

Motion to dismiss

Denied - consolidated ruling

Constitutional appeal

3d Cir. No. 25-1556 · consolidated under lead caption We Inform, LLC (No. 25-1555) · active

A Daniel's Law enforcement action aimed squarely at PrivateReports' operator, part of the wave of 140+ suits Atlas filed against data brokers in 2024 as assignee of roughly 19,000 covered persons - judges, police, and prosecutors whose home addresses and phone numbers the defendants allegedly kept publishing after takedown notices. The district court denied Infomatics's motion to dismiss, rejecting its argument that Daniel's Law doesn't reach its conduct, in a consolidated ruling that also covered The People Searchers, We Inform, and eMerges. The First Amendment question now sits on interlocutory appeal at the Third Circuit, where Infomatics has its own docket - No. 25-1556 - consolidated with roughly forty sibling appeals under the lead caption of batch-sibling We Inform, LLC (No. 25-1555). The Third Circuit heard argument on July 9, 2025 and no decision had issued as of FIRE's case page.

Bujok, Jones & Smart v. MC2 Data, LLC

Dismissed Feb 6, 2025 · no class certified

S.D. Fla. · Three class actions · Filed October 2024

Defendant

MC2 Data, LLC

Dockets

0:24-cv-61864 · 0:24-cv-61978 · 0:24-cv-62006

Filed

Oct 7 · Oct 22 · Oct 25, 2024

Records exposed

106,316,633 + 2.3M subscribers

Database size

2.2 TB · passwordless

Three class actions over the leak of the backend serving PrivateReports and its sibling brands - Bujok v. MC2 Data, LLC, Smart v. MC2 Data LLC and Jones v. MC2 Data, LLC, all in the Southern District of Florida. The court consolidated them under Bujok on November 20, 2024, but no consolidated complaint was ever filed. After the plaintiffs gave notice of a settlement, the case was dismissed on February 6, 2025 - with prejudice as to the named plaintiffs' own claims and without prejudice as to the putative class claims. No class was certified, so there's no classwide settlement to claim from. ClassAction.org opened an attorney investigation into the breach - its page explicitly names PrivateReports among MC2's background-check websites - and has since closed it.

We have not found an FTC enforcement action, state Attorney General action, or FCRA class action naming PrivateReports or Infomatics LLC as of the last-updated date below.

FAQ

Q & A

Common questions
Is PrivateReports a data broker?

Yes. PrivateReports is a people-search site that sells background reports - court filings, property records, USPS change-of-address data, and contact information - compiled from a name-and-state search, behind a $1 trial that converts to a recurring subscription. It's registered as a data broker with the California Attorney General (registration #542906, shared with MugshotLook), and it's one of the five sites the 2024 Cybernews investigation names as MC2 Data-operated.

Who owns PrivateReports?

Infomatics LLC of Woodland Hills, California, which also operates MugshotLook and PublicSearcher - one California data-broker registration covers all three domains, with PrivateReports-branded email and phone as the registered contacts. The BBB files the business as "Infomatics LLS aka PrivateReports" (almost certainly a typo for LLC) and lists no principals; no filing we can cite names an owner or documents the brand's relationship to MC2 Data, the backend firm the press attributes the family to.

How do I remove my information from PrivateReports?

Use the opt-out form at privatereports.com/api/helper/optOutLight/search. Search your name and state, click REMOVE on your record, and submit the verification form with a working email. You then have to click the link in the OptOut Request Confirmation email - the removal doesn't process without it. The site allows itself 48 hours to send that email, though it arrived within minutes when we ran the flow. Our PrivateReports removal guide walks through each step.

Does opting out of PrivateReports remove me from MugshotLook and the other sister sites?

Assume no. The family shares a backend and an identical opt-out flow, but the operator has never confirmed that suppression propagates between brands. Submit separately on each family site that lists you. PeopleSearch123 runs the same form as this one and can be finished the same way. MugshotLook, InmatesSearcher, PublicSearcher, Background Checkers and Check Secrets serve the same form but refuse every request it receives, so each of those takes a written request instead.

Why was I charged $49.82 by PrivateReports?

BBB complaints describe a $1 trial - one complainant says it was advertised as a free criminal report with a $1 fee - that auto-enrolls into a $49.82 monthly subscription. Complaints from mid-2023 through August 2024 name $39.82 instead, so the price looks to have risen around December 2024. Cancel through support@privatereports.com or (833) 783-0920. The complaint record shows the company usually refunds once a BBB complaint is filed, so file one if support stalls, and dispute the charge with your card issuer as the backstop.

Was PrivateReports involved in a data breach?

Its backend was. In August 2024, Cybernews researchers found a passwordless 2.2 TB database belonging to background-check firm MC2 Data, holding 106,316,633 records on roughly 100 million US residents - about one in three Americans - plus data on some 2.3 million paying subscribers. Press coverage of the investigation names PrivateReports as one of the MC2-run consumer brands, and Have I Been Pwned indexed the breach in December 2024. As of the last coverage we can cite, MC2 Data hadn't publicly acknowledged the exposure.

Is PrivateReports covered by FCRA?

We can't quote PrivateReports' own disclaimer - the site renders entirely in JavaScript and its terms pages were unreadable when we checked. Its sibling sites in the same family all carry standard not-a-consumer-reporting-agency language, and we found no FCRA case naming the brand or its operator. Either way, nothing suggests its reports can lawfully be used for employment, credit, insurance, or tenant-screening decisions - those require an FCRA-compliant agency.

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Last updated:

August 10, 2026 · Opt-out confirmed by a real walkthrough - the working form is the family's optOutLight flow at /api/helper/optOutLight/search, and the verification email arrived within minutes. Profile otherwise drafted August 4, 2026 from the operator's California data-broker registration, BBB filings, third-party opt-out guides, and press coverage of the 2024 MC2 Data leak.