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 running on MC2 Data's shared backend, 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. Historically the domain also sat inside the MC2 Data network; its records were on MC2's leaked backend alongside 14 sister brands, with admin accounts on @mc2data.com addresses, and MC2 Data, LLC withdrew its Florida registration in October 2024. Nothing we can cite explains how the domain moved between the two.

The site is live and serving its app as of August 2026, the domain is paid up through July 2027, and current removal services still cover it. What's odd is that MC2 Data, LLC - the network's documented operator - filed its Florida corporate withdrawal in October 2024 and is flagged out of business by the BBB. The brand outlived that registration, and the only place a current operator is named is Infomatics LLC's California data-broker filing rather than the site itself.

Its backend was. In August 2024, researcher JayeLTee found the MC2 Data network's server exposed without a password - 2.3 million customer accounts including plaintext credit-card details, 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. The operator shut the server after being contacted but never publicly acknowledged the exposure.

Right now you may not be able to - when we walked the opt-out on August 10, 2026, every search attempt returned "Captcha verification failed. The requested feature is not available." on a form that never showed a CAPTCHA. If the form recovers, the flow is the family's standard one: search your name and state, click REMOVE on your record, submit the verification form, and click the emailed link. Our PublicSearcher removal guide covers the failure and the fallback channels. No turnaround is published, so recheck after a few weeks.

Assume no. The 15-brand family shares one backend, but the operator has never confirmed that suppression propagates between brands. Submit separately on each family site that lists you. The same form runs across the network, but it does not work everywhere. PrivateReports can be finished. MugshotLook refuses every request with the identical CAPTCHA error this site gives, and Check Secrets and InmatesSearcher fail too, so those take a written request.

Not by its own account. Cached copies of its policy pages state it does not provide consumer reports and is not 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.