The WebsitePlanet research team in cooperation with Security Researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password protected database that contained over 323,277 court related records. Upon further investigation, the researchers discovered that the records were all related to Cook County, Ill., the second most populous county in the United States after Los Angeles County.  According to the research team, nearly every record, which dated back to 2012 and all the way up to 2020, contained some form of personally identifiable information (PII) such as full names, home addresses, email addresses, case numbers, and private details about the cases.

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