- US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) admits exposing around 61,000 filers’ private addresses inadvertently in public records from February 2020 to March 2023.
- The leak was discovered in one of its APIs and addresses also appeared in bulk datasets published online by the agency for research purposes.
- USPTO claimed the leak was resolved on April 1, with no current evidence of data misuse, affecting approximately 3% of filings over the mentioned period.
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