USA Criminal Records 2024 Data Breach
Platform · Public records search and people search services · People search and background information broker · USA
USA Criminal Records People-Search Site Breach (2024): 51M Names & Home Addresses Exposed
People-search website aggregating public criminal records
Compilation · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
41/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Moderate: notable exposure with meaningful misuse potential.
Data Sensitivity i
StandardExposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
51.3MRecords
2024Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Crucial data exposed
AddressPhysical address
Breach Summary
USA Criminal Records, a commercial people-search platform that aggregates criminal records and personal contact data from public sources, suffered a breach in May 2024 when the cybercriminal known as USDoD released approximately 70 million records taken from the site. The exact method of extraction has not been publicly confirmed. The affected individuals were not users of the platform but third parties whose information had been collected from public databases and republished without their direct involvement. The exposed data included full names, home addresses, known aliases, dates of birth, and arrest and conviction records spanning 2020 to 2024. Because this data links real people to criminal histories and physical locations, the risks are serious. Affected individuals face an elevated threat of doxxing, stalking, harassment, and discrimination, and those with sensitive records, such as sealed or expunged cases, may face reputational harm if the data circulates further. No major regulatory action or class-action litigation specifically tied to this breach has been publicly documented. Data brokers that source from public records often face limited legal exposure, which means affected individuals should not expect formal notification or redress. People with any history in the U.S. criminal justice system between 2020 and 2024 should be alert to unsolicited contact, requests that reference personal details, or signs that their home address has been exposed online.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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51.3M records analyzed
About USA Criminal Records
USA Criminal Records is a people-search website aggregating publicly available criminal records, court filings, and personal contact data into searchable consumer-facing profiles. The platform is marketed for background research and people-search purposes. It operates as a data broker, sourcing records from public databases rather than collecting data directly from individuals.
Why They Hold Your Data
People-search and criminal-record platforms aggregate identity, address, public-record, and criminal-history-linked data into searchable consumer profiles.
Recent Developments
No significant organizational developments for USA Criminal Records have been documented in public sources beyond its role in the 2024 breach. The platform continues to operate as a people-search service in the U.S. data broker market.
Data Points Exposed
2 verified field types
Full Name
Physical address High
Breach Impact
In May 2024 the cybercriminal known as USDoD claimed responsibility for releasing approximately 70 million records from the platform. The exposed data included names and home addresses tied to criminal record profiles — third-party subjects aggregated without their direct participation. The breach was notable because the records implicated not registered users of the site but individuals whose data had been scraped from public sources and republished. No major regulatory action or class-action litigation specifically tied to this breach has been prominently documented in public sources, consistent with the limited legal exposure data brokers typically face when the data was sourced from public records rather than directly held account information.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A data-broker/identity breach: aggregated identity attributes re-seed broker networks and enrich targeting of the individual. For a high-profile principal this is targeting-grade, not merely identity-theft-grade: the combination lets an adversary locate, impersonate, or pressure the principal with little additional work.
What You Should Do
- Treat the home address as exposed: review mail and package handling and physical-security routines, and brief household staff to verify unusual requests.
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping and footprint neutralization: cross-reference against broker-available data and suppress still-removable elements, prioritizing address and phone, since this record re-seeds broker networks.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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Threat Actor: USDoDConfidence: High
Motivation: Financial, notoriety
A high-profile hacker persona linked to InfraGard and National Public Data breach claims. Brazilian police reportedly arrested the actor in Operation Data Breach.
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