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A recent data breach of personal information of firearms owners with concealed carry permits has been connected to an update of the California Department of Justice’s Firearms Dashboard Portal.

Even those who were denied a license also had their details leaked.

Earlier this week, the California Department of Justice (DOJ) illegally released the private and personal information of Californians who own firearms. This reckless release of confidential information poses a potential

State and federal judges and prosecutors are among the more than 200,000 people that had sensitive personal information, like addresses, exposed in the recent leak of state concealed handgun permit data.

Personal information of state residents who sought a concealed-carry weapons permit over the past decade was made public

The personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners was published online by the California Department of Justice, the agency said.

The Department of Justice says its online portal exposed the personal information of anybody who was granted or denied a concealed-carry permit from 2011 to 2021.

According to the KCSO, a data breach by the California DOJ may have made the personal information of those "who were granted or denied a concealed and carry weapons (CCW) permits public.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Department of Justice on Wednesday acknowledged the agency wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in up to six state-operated databases, a broader exposure than the agency initially disclosed a day earlier.

Personal information for Californians who were granted or denied a concealed and carry weapons permit over a period of 10 years, as well as the personal information of people associated with several other gun dashboards was disclosed online this week, the state's Department of Justice confirmed.