PublicSearcher

Yes. PublicSearcher is a people-search site. You enter a first name, last name, and state, and it returns matching person records and sells access to fuller background reports covering addresses, relatives, marriage and divorce records, bankruptcies, and criminal records. It's one of the 15 brands security researcher JayeLTee found with users on the server exposed in the 2024 MC2 Data leak, though no filing is made under the PublicSearcher brand name. The domain appears on Infomatics LLC's registration instead.

Infomatics LLC of Woodland Hills, California, per its current CPPA data-broker registration, which names publicsearcher.com alongside privatereports.com and mugshotlook.com. The site itself gives nothing away (no company, no address, no principals anywhere a research tool can read), so the filing is the only place the operator identifies itself. In 2024 the site also had users on the server exposed in the MC2 Data leak, alongside 14 other brands, with admin accounts on @mc2data.com addresses; the researcher who found it wrote that he didn't know whether MC2 Data owns the sites. MC2 Data, LLC withdrew its Florida registration in October 2024. No filing we can cite ties Infomatics LLC to MC2 Data.

The site is live and serving its app as of August 2026, and the domain is paid up through July 2027. MC2 Data, LLC, whose domain the leaked server's admin accounts used, withdrew its Florida registration in October 2024, and its BBB profile now says it's out of business. The site kept running, and the only place a current operator is named is Infomatics LLC's California data-broker filing rather than the site itself.

A server it had users on was. In August 2024, researcher JayeLTee found a server, whose admin accounts were @mc2data.com addresses, exposed without a password. It held 2.3 million customer accounts with card type, last four digits and expiry date stored in plaintext, plus records on more than 100 million people. Cybernews reported the exposure at 2.2TB and 106,316,633 records. Every user record mapped to one of 15 brand sites, and publicsearcher.com was on that list. MC2 Data hadn't publicly acknowledged the exposure as of September 25, 2024.

Use the request page at publicsearcher.com/api/helper/optOutLight/search. Select Remove My Information, put in the name, birthday, city, ZIP code and state of the person listed, add an email address, and click the confirmation link PublicSearcher sends. The site says it completes requests within 45 calendar days. This replaces the search form that failed on every attempt when we walked it on August 10, 2026. Our PublicSearcher removal guide covers the new page and the fallback channels.

Assume no. The 15 brands shared one server in 2024, but no operator has confirmed that suppression propagates between brands. Submit separately on each site that lists you. The same request page runs across these sites, and the sites whose earlier forms failed in August, MugshotLook, Check Secrets and InmatesSearcher among them, have all moved to it along with PrivateReports.

Not by its own account. Cached copies of its policy pages state it doesn't provide consumer reports and isn't a consumer reporting agency, and its terms prohibit using the site for hiring, rental, lending, insurance, or eligibility decisions. That's the operator's position, not a ruling. If a report was used against you in one of those decisions anyway, the FCRA may still apply. The disclaimer also doesn't change what a report exposes about you in an ordinary name search, which is why removal is still worth doing.